Bingo ditto. Employers dump their employees out of company health plans (see other thread -- they were already going for it), and presto -- single player, single payer.
Howard Raines, former chief editor of The New York Times who got chased out by the Jayson Blair scandal, told us in October 2008 in an article he wrote for Conde' Nast's Portfolio that this was baked in the cake.
The Republicans threw the 2008 election so Obama could take the popularity hit for employers' dumping their employee health plan and flowing the premiums down to the bottom line -- with a brief stop for magnificent executive "competitiveness" and "capital formation" bonuses. It was a done deal, negotiated and executed through the think tanks -- Harvard for the liberals, American Enterprise Institute for the Business Roundtable/Chamber/RNC.
hitchwolf, try untangling your "is" and "isn't" statements so that your statements actually parse.
Thought I'd better say something now, since you Hillary! Democrats are usually pretty short-lived in this forum.
Howell Raines not "Howard" Raines. Don't know how I missed that on edit; stupid error.