"But instead of working toward the elimination of for-profit insurance, H.R. 3962 would put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care. In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance from the very industry that causes costs to be so high, which will result in at least $70 billion in new annual revenue, much of which is coming from taxpayers. This inevitably will lead to even more costs, more subsidies, and higher profits for insurance companies — a bailout under a blue cross.

"By incurring only a new requirement to cover pre-existing conditions, a weakened public option, and a few other important but limited concessions, the health insurance companies are getting quite a deal.

Daily Kos has unrealistic expectations about the quality of this healthcare bill, HR 3962. As someone who works in healthcare and knows a lot of about previous statewide reforms, I can tell you that by pushing a "politically feasible" incremental reform, we are ignoring our own history as well as the history of every other industrialized country on this Earth. 59% of physicians support single payer, and somewhere around 58% of Americans. It is not a far left idea. It is an idea that takes the basic principles we are arguing now (that the government has a role to play in ensuring that people can pay for healthcare, that everyone deserves healthcare regardless of ability to pay) and uses those principles to cut down on the administrative waste in the system that does not help those objectives. When an idea that a majority of Americans support is "not politically feasible", we have to look at how it is that our democracy is working (or not working). Single payer is not politically feasible because special interests are being considered above our own interests as Americans. Instead of taking this fact for granted, as Daily Kos is currently doing, we need to reject the premise that the only options available to us are the ones offered by insurance companies. Right now, us "progressives" are perfectly happy to choose from the menu offered by insurance companies. Well I (and Dennis Kucinich) are not happy with that. It is a logical fallacy that the only factor in the passage of a bill is how "left" or "right" it is. There are good bills and bad bills, too. This bill is a bad bill. Perhaps it will be no harder to pass a "left, good" bill than this "centrist, bad bill".