The flaws in the strategy...

[kentuck]

It seems to me that the strategy to pass health care reform was flawed from the beginning. The Party was all over the board on the issue. The scattering of different plans only served to confuse people. There was no simple idea.

In the first place, there was no fall-back position. They wrote off the single-payer idea from the start. Perhaps that should have been the starting point? Then they could have fallen back on a "public option" plan. As it is now, there is no back up plan. They started where they should have ended.

The Party should have agreed on the simple concept that there should be health care reform. Without the complex details, that would have been the best place to begin the debate. That was something they all could have agreed upon. As it was, all the different committees came up with opposing plans, destined for controversy and defeat.

Also, the President was put out front to explain a health reform plan that did not exist. There were no specifics that people could explain in a simple clear way. Without the specifics, everything was open to distortion and deception by the opponents of health care. And that is exactly what happened.