Reply #60: The guy who was elected was $upported by goldman sachs. [View All]

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and the financial industry. Our support was great PR.


As far as your what if exercise, a version of this question was asked a few months ago by another fervent obama fan. Having watched this whole fiasco play out exactly as I thought it would I am more convinced than ever that if Obama had come out in the beginning and used his considerable organization in every community and turned office space into community health care reform information and education locations and set out to specifically educate the public with weekly televised comparisons of each country currently offering universal care, including experts and citizens from each country, exploring the pros and cons, ending with our current private health insurance system (let them sell their own product to us) and then what he feels is the best approach to reform, set up a website and telephones to educate and answer folks questions and concerns on different plans and approaches, had involved all of us in our health care future instead of having us sit on the sidelines sick, desperate and scared, waiting for the elite and ins. co's to decide our futures, we would have a very different outcome.

The majority of people want some kind of universal system now, with info, education and a look at other countries and a call to be involved, to participate we could have demanded true reform. the politicians would have no choice. The 18-20% of the lunatic fringe would just get dragged along kicking and screaming. They'll shut up as soon as they start benefiting because it is all being selfish for them. And if politicians decided to block reform what opportunity and momentum to get rid of them. We just can't afford to hide the rot behind faux reform any longer.

I thought Obama was about involving us, calling us to participate, and most of all after listening to the horror stories from folks for 2 years on the campaign trail I thought he was about NOT leaving 34 million uninsured americans by the wayside.


I was wrong.