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Originally Posted by Bucco
I have been so frustrated with this entire thing.....I was so sure that what Obama said was look at and have hearings on HEALTH COSTS. Anything else, to me were simply a few things we may be able to address but HEALTH COSTS was the thrust.
This seems to be lost on all those folks who adore at Obama's altar...he didnt even get close to what he said he would do. Of course I have said enough about taking it secret but maybe we know why.
I actually got caught up in his rhetoric...an open and very clear discussion of HEALTH COSTS on CSPAN.....I think Health costs are a HUGE problem, but he really never even did anything about it and crowned himself a savior as with his followers. I consider Obama to be scary !
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If there's blame to be laid on, Bucco, it's mostly on the partisan members of Congress who responded to their special interest lobbyists by inserting hundreds of amendments and pages of content benefitting virtually every participant in the healthcare industry. That's why, as reported after the bill was passed, "champagne corks were popping on K Street".
If the POTUS is to be blamed, it's for not vetoing what had become a bloated, expensive, special interest benefit-laden Rube Goldberg of a bill. But after having Congress take 14 months to create something that contained several of the elements he wanted, he wasn't about to throw the baby out with the bath water. If the bill had been vetoed, who would have any confidence that Congress would fix the faults that justified the veto?
I'd argue there was little chance of that happening. Remember the super committee? So while I think the POTUS should share the blame by not vetoing the bill, I understand why he didn't.