"Like all of neoliberalism, the last five decades of health care debate was a deal between the right and left to have social goods distributed through increasingly powerful corporations instead of directly through the state. Progressives got something close to universal health insurance 'coverage,' while the right got a privatized system with no limits on corporate power and no price transparency."
-Matt Stoller, #Obamacare Is Cooked. What's Next?
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The crazy part about the ACA or Obamacare:
In 1995, Hillary Clinton as first wife, proposed universal health care. She was reviled with "government death panels" and howling by republicans.
At that time, republicans and their think tank, Heritage Foundation, proposed an alternate plan that had markets, health plans, etc.
This noname guy from Massachusetts took this plan and ran it in his state. Ever hear of the republican Mitt Romney? Yeah, that nobody.
Then Obama wanted to take Romneycare and the Heritage Foundations plan and make it national. And gee golly, howls of socialism... From a republican plan.
He instituted it, barely. But "Soshulism" screams are now regularly made. Nobody remembers the history:
The ACA was a republican plan!
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