Which is closest to what you currently believe about Obama and health care reform?

[Onlooker]

[vi5]

1. I voted for Wall St, but it's a combination of that...

..and being outplayed by the right wing. I think he and his staff started believing their own (or maybe just the media's) "calm and cool zen master wins the race" routine that has gotten him this far.

[Vidar]

2. Obama's can't successfully be both a corporatist & a populist.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I'm waiting to see what happens. There's too many conflicting "sources" saying things so

I have no way of knowing what the President himself is thinking or planning to do.

What _I_ want him to do is make sure we have a Medicare-for-all-who-want-it option with no trigger... just go for it, and that we revisit Plan D so that we can negotiate pricing with the drug companies. Whether that's what we get is still anyone's guess eight now.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. He's getting bad advice

from a certain corporatist enabler and his Medicare hating brother.

[invictus]

6. +1

[invictus]

5. Is Obama playing chess again?

:sarcasm:

[fadedrose]

7. I voted "would rather lose"...

because that's what I wish he would do. If he can't get a public option, just drop the whole health care reform bill and wait two years, helping progressives get elected.

We'll all be better informed by the time the 2010 election comes up. Two months ago I didn't know the difference between "single-payer" and "public option." All I knew was universal health care. Wasn't till all parties involved were given a seat at the negotiating table that everything got so confusing. That shouldn't happen next time around, and with more votes we might even go for single-payer. Who knows...