Single Payer Stillbirth - Wendell Potter reports for The Nation:
Reviewing ALEC’s healthcare-related bills and resolutions from the past few years makes it clear that insurers realized early on that the best way to block the profit-threatening provisions of any federal reform would be to attack them at the state level through ALEC. With Democrats in control of both houses of Congress and the White House in 2009, insurers assumed some kind of healthcare reform was inevitable, so they adopted a strategy to shape rather than stop reform.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/alec-exposed-and-it-aint-prettyI surmise the same happened with the public option. But of course, people would blame President Obama
first and
foremost.
So, no, after they've spent MILLIONS in framing public opinion, there was no way the less-than-courageous Congressional Dems would've allowed any Public Option to take shape. Gotta keep the easily cowed constituents back home happy if you wanna keep your cushy job, right?
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