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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
Well I think so, its been a pretty big part of their platform for years so it only makes sense that they might continue to push it if they have the numbers to. I do however fear them becoming to dogmatic about the whole thing and losing perspective about what the country really wants/needs. For example lets say people are happy with the balance struck by early reforms and instead of leaving it at that, they keep pushing and pushing for more reforms because they feel they have to or need to as its a big part of the platform.
I think ideally a balance between the two sides is what the country really needs right now. Despite how good/bad single payer may be for the country its something we're going to have to ease into with small steps. People just don't like monkeying with a system that works for them and weather its selfish or not, people are going to look out for their own or their families own best interest before others. Its going to be hard to convince somebody with a good health care plan to change anything because they just can't be sure if what they get will leave them worse off.
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I'm not sure the country knows what it wants right now. Part of us wants capitalistic anarchism, part of us wants the status quo, part of us wants the public option and part of us wants something more European (me!).
The question of what we need is our point of contention. I feel the case has been made for single-payer being the best option should only the facts be considered, but that's just my opinion. Still, when I authored this threat, my thought was simply: the current healthcare bill probably isn't what supporters of reform wanted, so where are we going to push next?