How many 'Single Payer' votes in Congress will not support the Public Option?

[denem]

Answer: All But none. Obama has the fight of his life ahead of him getting through Congress a Health Care Plan, with a viable Public Option. Yet there are those who say the Administration could push Single Payer through Congress on the back of opinion poll support, notwithstanding what would be an historic negative campaign, sure to include Obama rejecting Single Payer in 2008. Then, If defeated, we can still be content: A least we can say you tried, like Harry Truman.

Wake up and smell the coffee. If a Public Option, keeping and expanding Employee Health Benefits is difficult, how could abolishing employee schemes with Single Payer be easier?

[denem]

1. No takers?

[ThomWV]

2. No one said Single Payer was any easier - just that it wouldn't be any harder either

Either way you're up against a wall of shit, why not go for the whole ball of wax? If there was any sort of unity or leadership in the Democratic Party we could have this one any way we want it.

[denem]

3. And Obama's 2008 statements rejecting Single Payer?

There's a good a right there: 'If we were starting from scratch where employers do not provide health benefits? Obama wants to take away your employee health benefits! How would that sell? IT WOULD sell if corporations were honest, but what's the chance of that?

[denem]

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