Reply #32: That's not how I remember it.

[JackRiddler]

Clinton's proposal also sucked, if that's what you mean.

But there's no comparison as far as relative support in the public. The teabaggers can march in their tens of thousands, fact is the million millions are not buying the propaganda this time around. People have become highly aware of how insurance companies and the health care system fucks them up every day.

Neither "single payer" nor "public option" were in that debate, and if they are today, it's because of the overwhelming public support. The process back then was driven by the "findings" of HRC's study board, Obama's been smarter perhaps not to go that route - although the Congressional process today is amounting to the same pretense as back then, that the problem's too complex, and then letting the insurance companies bastardize the proposals further.

I'm saying, rather than killing reform by passing a fake version of it that fails, let the Republicans block it for a year more against the wishes of the American people, and let the people vote out the miscreants who did that.

PS - Thanks for reading. I mean that seriously, at least you got to B and C.