All that’s left to say is, you guys own this along with Obama. You won’t need Glenn Beck after this to give Progressives a bad name. The theory that you need a mandate first is foolish, unless that plan is to let the insurance milk everyone so bad that it will be the only action left. I don't know whose going to be left to join this fight to follow up on a public option (OR WHEN) or a single payer system, call me blind but I again see this whole thing and every other bill being constructed as the Dems forging the weapon for their slaughter. 

by Alloy on 03/11/2010 08:51:20 PM EST

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and look, I'm against the mandate on the same philosophical reasons you probably are, but I just can't see how insurance (public or private) can get around the cost shifting issue without it.  My ears are open if you know how.

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by HistoryByDay on 03/11/2010 09:48:46 PM EST

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