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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
My point is that the form it has taken isn't the universal health care other nations have come to know. It's a insurance scheme. The reason why it happened is because people were freaking out about "socialized medicine" and "death panels" and so Obama had to change how he approached it, which is a shame. And this is where we get back to the OP: they demonized the health care proposal as socialist instead of seeing how it could actually work.
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You described the Canadian socialist health care plan as having both a public option and a single payer option. Obama went on record as wanting both of those in his health care plan, which places another tick mark in the socialist column for Obama. The fact that the American public wouldn't let him have those options doesn't erase the socialist tick mark.