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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:29PM (#27666648)
Obamacare was widely derided by many Democrats as a worst-of-both-worlds plan when the public option was scraped.
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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by api on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:08PM (#27669497)
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.
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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:08AM (#27672783)
They 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=l...

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