Open Left

these are serious issues, and there is absolutely no doubt that single

payer would be far and away a better solution.  

i'd love to see people who actually knew about these issues talk about how the public plan might relate to the problem of cherry-picking.  it seems to me that, even if this were an issue, we would at least A) have many more people insured, and B) have a better set of conditions against which the private insurers had to compete for 'healthy' insurees.

also, a random thought: why is it that the left can't buy off people like baucus.  what if a coalition of people on the left promised to raise the same amount of money he has raised from the insurance companies in exchange for his support of single payer?  go down the line with the senators, and then organize massive mobilizations, and what would prevent us from having single payer?  

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by: seabrook @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 14:28:53 PM CDT