On health care reform, Ralph Nader is giving his fellow Lefties the “I told you so” treatment. He says concessions that Obama and his congressional allies have allegedly made to the insurance industry were a betrayal of the voters and that he predicted it. In an interview with Benjamin Sarlin, Nader said:
This is what I meant a year ago when I said the next year will determine whether Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom groveling before the demands of the corporations.
Nader claims that everything worth having in a reform bill has been stripped out to please the “health care industrial complex:”
It doesn’t have a drug-reimportation provision, it doesn’t have a public option, it doesn’t have a Medicare buy-in, and in the House they lost a number of provisions … Basically it’s a massive new subsidy to the health-insurance industry to deliver millions of customers, including those who will be forced to buy junk insurance policies.
Most of this stuff is also being said by the rest of Nader’s fellow travelers on the Left. The only difference is that Nader was saying it when people like Markos Moulitsas were treating Obama like a rock star. He claims he’s not bitter about getting the Cassandra treatment, but he did ask Sarlin: ”Is the title of your article ‘I told you so?’”
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