@mikric12,
Quote:what happened to the tsingle payer option?
Candidate Obama never wanted it in the first place, but put it in his platform under pressue from Hillary Clinton's and John Edwards's primary voters.
Once elected, president Obama negotiated with himself, anticipating legislative pressure from Republicans. He dropped the public option before even starting to negotiate with Republicans, in hopes of getting a few of them to vote for his health reform. That, of course, didn't happen. Obamacare, watered down as Obama had wanted it to be in the first place, got enacted in a strictly party-line vote.
(In other words, I think Monterrey Jack is too easy on Obama. Obama pretty much got the reform he had always wanted.)