When it came time to legislate health reform in the wake of the Democratic victory, Obama's public option did not make it into the law. Keep that in mind: when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, Democrats agreed the public option was unworkable. Now that Obamacare has creaked along for six years, both the president who signed the law and the candidate he endorses to succeed him insist it is just the thing to fix Obamacare's most obvious problem: insurers' dropping out of health insurance exchanges, unable to profit even after increasing premiums by double digits every year.
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