What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Without Insurance

Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by baddox on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:31PM (#18779591)

Eh, the two ruling parties have cleverly worked things out so that they never have to actually implement any of the policies they claim to support. They can always just blame the other party for making their policies impossible. Both parties benefit from this system.

Look at Obamacare. A lot of Democrats will say that this was a genuine attempt to move toward single-payer, a public option, etc. and that they simply had to make compromises to get what they got passed (a change that undoubtedly helps many people but does so with a regressive tax, and certainly doesn’t simplify anything).

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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by masonic on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:21AM (#18783122)

  they simply had to make compromises to get what they got passed

For much of that Congress, the Democrat caucus had complete control (with filibuster-proof control of the Senate); they didn't have to "compromise" with a single Republican, hence zero Republican votes.

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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by infinite8s on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:39PM (#18781116)

It was a compromise. The only way they could get Joe Lieberman's crucial 60th vote was to kill the public option, which he strongly opposed (for what reason who knows).

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