started offering health insurance as an extra perk to try to attract workers. the idea the population being insured through private insurance routed through who your employer is is an accident. over time, we ve kept that accident, and we ve tried to patch together fixes to work around the worst implications of that accident. for the elderly who weren t working, so they are not going to get covered by any employer, we came up with medicare. for the very poor or for the disabled who also aren t working or who are working at jobs so low wage that they ll never offer benefits, we came up with medicaid. for veterans to whom the nation promises health care as a rather sacred deal we make with them in exchange for them dying for the country if asked to do so, for veterans, there s the va health system. for people laid off and on the way to their next job but need a bridge to keep their coverage between employers, ronald reagan signed something into law called
political cudgel, it would have undone the greatest legislative achievement of president obama s first term, one of the greatest democratic achievements ever, and their caricature of him as an overreaching president would have moved mainstream, so there was great potential reward for republicans in having challenged this law, had they won, and the risk to them was, frankly, not ç that big. the republicans did lose badly at the court, but they are where they were before in politics, vehemently opposed to health care reform, but their own idea for what we ought to do is still we ought to kill medicare, which is the one thing in our health care system that everybody likes and everybody agrees is sort of working, so that s baggage a for them, baggage b for them is their presidential nominee is a guy that did this exact same health reform policy at the state level, so that s where republicans were before the ruling and after the ruling too, a clear position with a ton of baggage, so they h
about her, that was strike three. and strike three would usually mean your out, but it turns out they re still up there swinging away. and they have to. and today the people who republicans have to be hoping are best at this stepped up to the plate to swing at it themselves. the romney campaign itself took a swing at this today. organizing a conference call on women s issues. now, specifically,ç they calle this conference call to try to apply their one big political trick to this war on women problem that the republicans know they ve got. their one political trick that they use for everything is the i m rubber, you re glue trick. so, like, mitt romney has a political liability in that he has signed on to the house republican paul ryan budget to kill medicare. so he accuses president obama of wanting to kill medicare! mr. romney told a reporter that he s going to keep secret his plans for which government departments he wants to eliminate entirely. he says he s going to keep those p
mean your out, but it turns out they re still up there swinging away. and they have to. and today the people who republicans have to be hoping are best at this stepped up to the plate to swing at it themselves. the romney campaign itself took a swing at this today. organizing a conference call on women s issues. now, specifically, they called this conference call to try to apply their one big political trick to this war on women problem that the republicans know they ve got. their one political trick that they use for everything is the i m rubber, you re glue trick. so, like, mitt romney has a political liability in that he has signed on to the house republican paul ryan budget to kill medicare. so he accuses president obama of wanting to kill medicare! mr. romney told a reporter that he s going to keep secret his plans for which government departments he wants to eliminate entirely.
mean your out, but it turns out they re still up there swinging away. and they have to. and today the people who republicans have to be hoping are best at this stepped up to the plate to swing at it themselves. the romney campaign itself took a swing at this today. organizing a conference call on women s issues. now, specifically, they called this conference call to try to apply their one big political trick to this war on women problem that the republicans know they ve got. their one political trick that they use for everything is the i m rubber, you re glue trick. so, like, mitt romney has a political liability in that he has signed on to the house republican paul ryan budget to kill medicare. so he accuses president obama of wanting to kill medicare! mr. romney told a reporter that he s going to keep secret his plans for which government departments he wants to eliminate entirely. he says he s going to keep those plans secret until after he is elected. and then he immediately give