Health Care: Time to fight dirty. This editorial says our side is not fighting hard on health care

[AlinPA]

and that we need to get as tough as the republicans.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09221/989355-109.stm

[glowing]

1. Its hard to fight when you don't know what you are fighting for.

Say the Dems said we want Universal Healthcare; Medicare for all system. Well, then there's something to battle for. But when you have a flim flamsy bill with a little gift here and a little gift there and a special rule for a certain ins. co. .. essentially 1200 pages of concessions and a bill that doesn't even get everyone covered, well, you cannot fight. I'm certainly not convinced that his healthcare bill is good. I want single-payer type of a system with no denials and a steady pay... I cannot afford another jump in insurance like we had this year.. $1200.00 more for the year. $450.00/ mo. for the family. If it increases again, we will be uninsured or I will go off the insurance and let my husband and son stay on (its cheaper to cover just himself and a child than to include myself along with him). On top of that, his employer changed ins. providers and the ins. we could pick from has higher co-costs and deductibles... If we actually get sick, we still cannot afford to actually use the ins. Its a shitty situation. There are so many more reasonable arguments for a single-payer system. There are actual benefits to this model.. AND with a majority house, senate, and white house all on message for a single-payer system.. we could win.

How do I fight for something that sucks? AND that's how most people are feeling. The bill sounds like crap. Its not single-payer which many, many, many people favor; so the shit we have is better than the shit they're peddeling.

[enlightenment]

3. Said it better than I could. Thanks.

Give me something worth fighting for and I'll fight for it - why should I fight for something that sounds like a giveaway to the insurance companies gussied up with fancy words that SOUND like they'll help a few people get some sort of crappy coverage (or worse, pretty words covering up the requirement to buy some sort of crappy coverage)?

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. Agreed

too many are willing to accept a weak public option compromise when they would prefer single payer.