Which proves the point I was making before.
I said the Democratic goal was government takeover of the health care system, and you responded thusly:
Reform on the table looks nothing like what TB describes. No single payer system. No public option. No medicare expansion. But hey, what does the truth have to do with anything?
The Democratic long-term plan for the government takeover of health care requires two things at this time:
- a government-run and taxpayer subsidized option (the "competition")
- regulations, mandates, and penalties to make it impossible for the private insurance to survive as private companies (the crippling of all the other competitors).
That these two things continue to be the core of every Democratic effort in this area tells us everything we need to know.