On Dkos:Obama just launched single-payer in America

[woo me with science]

38. Terry McAuliffe is as Third Way/corporate DLC as they come.

There is no way single payer happens under his governorship.

I am already highly skeptical that Virginia will even get the Medicaid expansion McAuliffe promised throughout his campaign.

Articles in the Washington Post the day after his election were already spewing the corporate talking points about why Virginia should not count on its happening.

McAuliffe apparently is already ruling out the idea, trumpeted during the campaign, of using the budget to do it. Instead, his administration is already making noises that they want to work cooperatively with Republicans on a deal, and it might take a long time.

Va. Medicaid expansion still faces uphill battle, even after McAuliffe win
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2013/11/va-medicaid-expansion-still-faces.html?page=all

During the campaign, McAuliffe indicated he might try to expand Medicaid via the budget, the political equivalent of dousing all of Richmond in lighter fluid —Republicans believe that would violate the law that created the 10-member commission.

That’s not the tone his transition team is sounding. Spokesman Brian Coy told me he wants to build a foundation for Medicaid expansion, work with both parties and proceed with reforms collaboratively.

“He’s committed to this as long as it takes,” Coy said.