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In reply to the discussion: Wake the fuck up! WH:Individual mandate conceived of by the Heritage Foundation (VIDEO) [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The corporate mandate was the goal all along, and the "negotiations" between the one percent on one side and the one percent on the other side were pure theater for our benefit.
They played this for the masses. They purposely revved up one side with the promise of universal healthcare, and revved up the other side with the threat of government health care, and then they came up with a planned "compromise" that mandates every single American to purchase an outrageously overpriced corporate product for their entire lives.
Think about that. Unprecedented, and something that neither side wanted, and they knew it. What a bonanza for the insurance companies. And that was the goal all along.
It was perhaps the most elegantly orchestrated political scam by the one percent in both parties, in recent memory.