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While progressive seek radical social change, it is often pursued incrementally. Two examples serve in the Obama era: Obamacare and gay marriage.
While progressive seek radical social change, it is often pursued incrementally. Two examples serve in the Obama era: Obamacare and gay marriage.
Obamacare with its individual and employer dictates was designed to fail. The progressive objective of a [[big government]], [[Soviet]]-style [[single payer]] system was too radical a change to implement during the brief window of opportunity given between 2009-2011 when Democrats had the [[White House]] and a veto-proof Congress. Progressives settled on a system that allowed private insurance companies to continue to operate provided they sold only policies dictated by progressive regulators. A dictate that all American adults - working or not working - be required to purchase insurance, or submit to eligibility requirements for [[entitlement]] care by income means testing, was also implemented. Penalties accrued for anyone non-compliant. The plan was phased in over a period of election cycle with the hope that those who recieved subsidized entitlement would appreciate "free healthcare," and when the plan failed support a progressive single payer system.
Obamacare with its individual and employer dictates was designed to fail. The progressive objective of a [[big government]], [[Soviet]]-style [[single payer]] system was too radical a change to implement during the brief window of opportunity given between 2009-2011 when Democrats had the [[White House]] and a veto-proof Congress. Progressives settled on a system that allowed private insurance companies to continue to operate provided they sold only policies dictated by progressive regulators. A dictate that all American adults - working or not working - be required to purchase insurance, or submit to eligibility requirements for [[entitlement]] care by income means testing, was also implemented. Penalties accrued for anyone non-compliant. The plan was phased in over a period of election cycle with the hope that those who recieved subsidized entitlement would appreciate "free healthcare," and when the plan failed support a progressive single payer system. The single payer system then would need progressives in Congress perpetually to insure its annual funding as demographics change.
==See also==
==See also==