Obama Was At a Town Hall Meeting

today, and I can tell you people who thought Obama was remotely progressive are finding out what I have said repeatedly about this guy and his neoliberal tendencies:

The problem is, is that we have what's called a legacy, a set of institutions that aren't that easily transformed. Let me just see a show of hands: How many people here have health insurance through your employer? Okay, so the majority of Americans, sort of -- partly for historical accident. I won't go into -- FDR had imposed wage controls during war time in World War II. People were -- companies were trying to figure out how to attract workers. And they said, well, maybe we'll provide health care as a benefit.

And so what evolved in America was an employer-based system. It may not be the best system if we were designing it from scratch. But that's what everybody is accustomed to. That's what everybody is used to. It works for a lot of Americans. And so I don't think the best way to fix our health care system is to suddenly completely scrap what everybody is accustomed to and the vast majority of people already have. Rather, what I think we should do is to build on the system that we have and fill some of these gaps.

Clueless, thy name is Obama. More neoliberal nonsense.

We need a drastic change in our health care system. Employers cannot compete with countries which have single-payer, which is almost all of the industrialized countries.

It's a matter of political will, pure and simple.