Reply #48: maybe you're right

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At present I do think getting the insurance behemoths to give up their franchise would be impossible.

I think you are right that some politicians should hammer away at Universal Hlth care --exactly as you say. This would be like the way the Republicans hammered home the idea of the "left wing media". This would have to be a long-term campaign to work on the sentiment and understanding that we have that the system as it stands is a mess.

If nothing else it would move the ball in the right direction and make Kerry's plan seem less threatening. Now Kerry is proposing a plan that would be a helluva lot better than what we have and it is a doable plan. It would really be gross pandering to propose a plan that is doomed.