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I've heard that Obama was reluctant to push harder for a public option because the health bureaucracy is such a massive employer. If true then we're basically d
by api 5y ago
I've heard that Obama was reluctant to push harder for a public option because the health bureaucracy is such a massive employer. If true then we're basically dragging along a counter-productive boat anchor that eats a ton of our health care spending as a back-door jobs program.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoThey dropped it to woo one moderate Democratic senator (Lieberman), who was basically the Manchin of his day. Without his vote, it would've gotten filibustered to death. https://www.google.com/search?q=lieberman+public+option&oq=lieberman+public+option https://www.google.com/search?q=lieberman+public+option&oq=l...