Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumFlashback: Obama says Sanders' supporters helped undermine Obamacare
At a town hall event with Vox Media, Obama acknowledged the politics have been stacked against his reforms, mainly blaming Republicans who he said refused to help make legislative fixes to Obamacare, which provides subsidies for private insurance to lower-income Americans who do not have healthcare plans at work.
But Obama also said Liberals like former Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders had contributed to the programs unpopularity.
During Sanders campaign for the presidential nomination, he proposed replacing Obamacare with a government-run single-payer health insurance system.
In the dissatisfied column are a whole bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters who wanted a single-payer plan, Obama said in the interview.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14Q2E5?fbclid=IwAR1NaH7WQ8e33I5k7vc-6WsGmu7yzJZvn_7zJdhZejUxf4W_T03jRzn6imw
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Gotta kill the good in order to achieve purity
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Public option was cut in hopes of getting moderate Republicans (looking at you Susan Collins) to vote for the package. Not a single GOPer voted for it, so we missed a chance to strengthen the whole package.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
betsuni
(25,615 posts)Al Franken: "Still, the math was the math, and it forced us to make some tough compromises. A handful of moderate-to-conservative Democrats were opposed to the public option, which would have increased competition in the insurance market. Gone."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
thesquanderer
(11,991 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
KPN
(15,650 posts)Why? Because Rs were against Obamacare and progressive Democrats were concerned from the get go that it didnt go far enough by not even considering single payer.
Sanders did not create or cause the unpopularity of the ACA. He acknowledged. This was shooting the messenger.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts) In the 2008 Obama-Biden health care plan on the campaigns website, candidate Obama promised that any American will have the opportunity to enroll in [a] new public plan. [2008]
During a speech at the American Medical Association, President Obama told thousands of doctors that one of the plans included in the new health insurance exchanges needs to be a public option that will give people a broader range of choices and inject competition into the health care market. [6/15/09]
While speaking to the nation during his weekly address, the President said that any plan he signs must include a public option. [7
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... the uninformed.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... look like a-holes that wouldn't deal with him no matter what, they succeeded.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(25,615 posts)votes in the Senate. There were sixty votes in the Senate, giving every one of those Senators a veto, for only four months and ten days.
Al Franken: "Still, the math was the math, and it forced us to make some tough compromises. A handful of moderate-to-conservative Democrats were opposed to the public option, which would have increased completion in the insurance market. Gone."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)That's who I blame.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)There's a reason why St. Bern was on the sidelines when Obama could have used his support back in 2010, and when he ran in 2016 all his people tried to pretend he was the first candidate to ever talk healthcare reform.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)the blame for that can be put on the GOP. The GOP began the dismantling and undermining of it the day after it was passed.
3 year old article.
The problem is not that they think Obamacare is a failure. The problem is that they dont think it went far enough and that it left too many people still uncovered, Obama said.
It's true. It didn't go far enough.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided