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thenewgreen · 3658 days ago · link · · parent · post: Obama Immigration Speech: The President Fulfills His Promise to Progressives - The Atlantic
there's no question Obama definitely chose largely to compromise
This is true and it's certainly revisionist history to suggest otherwise. We went from single payer to this hybrid model that keeps the money flowing in to the large insurance companies, in droves. They now have a huge swath of new, incremental revenue from people that otherwise would have never been customers. This was certainly the type of healthcare plan that should make the GOP grin from ear to ear. In fact, had it been proposed by a GOP president, there'd be no such animosity about it. So much of the anger is via the careful and frankly, artful packaging of it by the right wing media. They're really, really good at what they do.