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A Virginia Judges decision to throw out a central plank of the health insurance reform

law shows just how we'll consider the Obama plan was, forcing people to buy coverage from

costly, unreliable, and often on scrupulous private insurance companies was, in fact, a

coercive approach as Judge Henry Hudson ruled, and it was one that the insurance companies

loved because they were guaranteed tens of millions of new customers whom they could gouge.

Rather than coercing everyone into the private insurance market, Obama should have proposed

universal comprehensive and affordable health care which is provided as a right to all citizens.

This Medicare for All program or at a bare minimum, Medicare for All will want it.

When it had been the boondoggle to the private insurance companies that the current law is,

and it would have been impervious to court challenges, but Obama chose to saddle up with

the private insurance companies.

He imposed no federal limits on what they could charge so they're already able to raise

rates exorbitantly, and if Judge Hudson's decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, you

can expect your rates to become totally unaffordable very soon if they aren't already.

At which point, the wisdom of Medicare for All should be obvious to all.

And the other thing I want to mention is the health care because I mentioned a while

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