You are.
The Republicans are fighting against it.
Whether you realize it or not, we all are fighting for it or against it.
Yesterday the public option was shot down, and the best argument the Republicans could come up with was that it was
in the words of Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, “a Trojan horse for a single-payer system” in which the government would eventually control most health care.
Or, in the words of Chuck Grassley (R-IA):
"It is a slow walk toward government control."
Got that? The Republican Party thinks we can’t have a public option because it will lead to single-payer.
This is what I’ve said all along! We are fighting single payer even when we aren’t fighting single payer!
Every argument against healthcare reform the Republicans have brought up has been an argument against single-payer. But we never got to have an actual debate about the merits of single-payer because it was never actually on the table!
I’m so angry at the Democrats right now I can barely contain myself. How could you screw this one up so badly? How could you lose control of the debate like this? How could you sell out healthcare reform?
How could you be such fuck-ups?
This has been the most ham-fisted public policy debate I’ve ever seen. I want a damned debate about single payer already. The Republicans are having it, so come on, Democrats. Join the conversation. Put it on the table already.
What are you afraid of? That we might actualy get it?
