[pepsionice]

I think this is the play-act of both parties....dance enough, fake people out enough, and just stall until twenty-percent of the nation has no options on health insurance, and then waltz in and deliver single-payer. I would give single-payer about five years of ‘life’ before the public agrees that it’s a failure but there’s nothing left in the bag of tricks except marginal healthcare for the public. Once people said that it needed to be affordable....they opened up the only direction left...poor healthcare that is affordable.

[mad_as_he$$]

Exactly, it will get to “We have no choice but to take over this failed system.”

[Alberta's Child]

Here's the problem in a nutshell. Most Americans want health coverage that meets the following criteria:

1. It covers everyone.
2. It covers everything.
3. It doesn't cost very much.

In other words, Americans want a health care system that is built on delusion. This is why ANY plan developed by ANYONE in Congress was always destined to fail.

[JimRed]

Unless the leadership is required to accept the same level of care as the least of their constituents, nothing substantial will change.