• Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    I won’t pretend to be an expert on much of this, but I feel it’s wrong to say that he had the power to enact universal healthcare? Obama couldn’t even get a public option (which he wanted) because he had to make concessions to get a veto proof majority. I don’t see if this was the case that he had the power to enact full blown universal healthcare

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      2 months ago

      which he wanted

      Correction: He said he wanted it, but based on his actions, those words were just the usual empty politicking we’ve come to expect.

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        I mean I suppose you can look at it that way. We can’t really prove one way or another what he actually wanted. But if we’re basing what he wanted on his actions, I don’t see how you can pin that one on him. Like he tried to get a public option, the president can’t just make universal healthcare. It needs to pass the house and Senate.

        Idk about the others in your original comment and I won’t pretend to, but it’s pretty well documented that he would not have been able to get even a public option. How would he have been able to get universal healthcare if he couldn’t even do this?

        http://www.politico.com/story/2009/10/lieberman-ill-block-vote-on-reid-plan-028788