Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Look, I'm not fan of the bill that was passed that is now referred to as ObamaCare. I would have preferred a Medicare-based single payer system that covered all Americans, with people who could afford it paying a lot for such coverage, with strong tort reform built-in, with strong limitations on what would be paid for and what wouldn't, with a much greater emphasis on paying for results rather than treatment--more like the Mayo Clinic/Cleveland Clinic model.

But to now lay the total responsibility for the faulted plan that was passed solely on the doorstep of the POTUS doesn't seem right. What about all those members of the 535 who passed this abomination, who were paid by the lobbyists to include or exclude what the special interests wanted, who created such a Rube Goldberg piece of legislation? The President wanted dramatic expansion of healthcare coverage for tens of millions of Americans who relied solely on ER treatment or had no healthcare at all. He got that. But Congress mucked up the rest of it pretty badly.

There sure is enough blame to go around with this legislation. But other than the fact that the POTUS didn't simply veto the doggone thing and demand better, I find it almost entertaining that his political opponents want to lay the blame for the entire abomination of a bill in his lap, asserting that it was all of his design. It seems to me that nothing could be farther from the truth.