See Conde Nast Portfolio, October 2008. Article archive here:
http://www.portfolio.com/in-this-issue/in-this-issue-oct-2008
"Healthcare Nation", by Howell Raines (ex-editor, New York Times).
TinyURL version:
http://tinyurl.com/7w2ypls
The RiNO Establishment and the Democratic Party leadership, negotiating through their think-tank intermediaries, agreed to junk employer-paid healthcare to get the cost off employers' backs, and use the Democrats' Holy Grail of "single-payer" as a way to get rid of it. Never mind that it will make the Democrats invincible at the polls for the next 100 years, as every woman and health-impaired person out there will be powerfully bound to the Democrats by steel cables of government payola and access to doctors.
They decided to do this before the 2008 election, and everything that has transpired since then, especially on the GOP side, has been dumbshow for the chumps out in Chumpland.
Bingo! The way they have rigged the primary is nearly unbeatable, short of a revolution. Boehner assured that ocare would proceed unimpeded, and it will be impossible to undo it. Alan Simpson played the lovable conservative for years, when he retired he took off his mask and revealed the Progressive that suckered us for years.
Actors all of them.