Obama is the most consequential president since LBJ according to Paul Krugman!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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In an interview on NPR he supported his thinking by pointing out that he got health care passed and saved the U.S. from financial collapse and LBJ did a great job with his Great Society imitative. Those in between? They contributed very little in comparison. He called Obama transformative, but I am not sure that all would agree, especially in the right way. How about you?
 

The only way Obama got the health care program was to depend on the far left Democrats as the Republicans all said no. As the vote kept failing the Democrats, under Pelosi held the votes open for a long time as efforts were made to change some Democrat votes to give them the victory Obama wanted.

Republicans were kept from the program definitions efforts so none were actually allowed to help define the product. Not much was available at the vote but a book of pages with titles on them and very little text describing how it would work. Basically a big nothing. Today there are parts still not fully defined. The Obama care program still needs some hard work to make it behave the way Obama described it originally, but has not done so yet. Surprises are due in this next year enactment. Don't know what they will be but rumors of higher cost to the individual and less offered. Will see soon. Already getting information on signing up again.
 
Instead of all the hard work to make Obamacare run smooth, just go to universal, single-payer health care...that settles that problem.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Instead of all the hard work to make Obamacare run smooth, just go to universal, single-payer health care...that settles that problem.
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That's what most of us Progressives wanted in the first place, but Obama took it off the table early on.. Guess he was still operating under that delusion that he would get compromise from the Right side of the aisle.. It really PO'd lots of Liberals and unfortunately they voiced their disapproval by sitting out the 2010 MidTerms... and look what THAT got us!! Total Obstruction. But be that as it may, As imperfect as the ACA is, it's still better than what it was like before. I'm hoping that eventually we will get Single Payor, or Medicare for All... but that will take a total overhaul of the Congress.. and due to redistricting following the last census, and the Gerrymandering done by the GOP following the 2010 fiasco, we may be stuck with this House of Representatives til 2020. There will be no chance of Single Payer until the both the House and the Senate go back to Democratic control.
 

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