Reply #11: I agree with your approach

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I would vote against the current bill. It needs to go down in flames and be EXPOSED (although more people are noticing this anyway) for the steaming pile of cynically named corporate welfare that it is.

Then I would work on passing the few GOOD parts individually, such as funding public health clinics and banning denials and rescissions.

I would possibly draw some Republican votes by saying that until the feds get their act together, the states should act as laboratories for reform. (I say this knowing that California, Minnesota, and possibly other states have active single-payer movements underway.)

After that, I would get interested parties together to fund a nationwide advertising campaign featuring, for example, actual immigrants from companies with universal health care. ("I moved here from______ five years ago, and while I mostly like living in America, I really miss the health care system back home...")

I'd enlist the aid of people who have personal experience with foreign medical care to write op-eds for their local papers and to call in to talk shows.

In other words, I'd ask single-payer advocates to take control of the discussion.