Marcy Does A Great Take Down On The Notion This Is What Obama Campaigned On
Marcy Wheeler has a must read post in which she shows the major differences between the actual bill and what candidate Obama campaigned on: So let’s review. Ezra lists the following things that Obama promised, but failed to deliver: Public option No individual mandate Drug reimportation Government coverage of catastrophic costs Employer mandate National, rather […]
Marcy Wheeler has a must read post in which she shows the major differences between the actual bill and what candidate Obama campaigned on:
So let’s review. Ezra lists the following things that Obama promised, but failed to deliver:
- Public option
- No individual mandate
- Drug reimportation
- Government coverage of catastrophic costs
- Employer mandate
- National, rather than state level, exchanges
And then adds two things that Obama didn’t promise but are in the bill (and note, I agree the delivery system reforms are great improvements, but the case for the excise tax is riddled with problems and is a big attack on the unions that supported Obama in the campaign).
- Excise tax
- Delivery system reforms
And from that, Ezra judges, that the Senate bill is very close to the bill Obama promised!
There is a lot of history rewriting going on here. Those of us who believe this bill has became a failure are simply wanting to see the man we voted for work hard to deliver on his campaign promises. It feels like he got to the White House and gave us a big “adios suckers”.
Is it really so bad to ask for a little bit of fight for something you were promised? Really?
