All of the talk about this bill being nothing more than a corporate subsidy leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  It's the same as saying that food stamps are a corporate hand-out.  Yes, the money eventually makes it's way into the hands of a business that provides the end product, but that's because we want people to be able to afford and purchase these goods.  You are forgetting who the policy actually helps.

I'm with Cenk 100% when it comes to the politics.  The only step I can't take with his logic is that because the bill doesn't include a public option it is a bad bill and must be killed.

1) Killing the bill will result in the status quo for many years to come.  Perhaps not 20 years because the death spiral of the insurance companies is going to come into effect a lot sooner than that.  

2) This is essentially the policy proposed during the democratic primaries.  Yeah so we don't have a public option.  Get over it.  The public option was never going to rein in costs.  The CBO estimated that its premiums were going to be slightly higher than the private plans it was competing against.