Reply #13: The all or nothing approach will give us nothing, or worse..,...

[Buck Eichler]

Obama did not promise single payer. He only said it would remain part of the discussion. There is one huge reason for this. It won't pass. It's that old reality check rearing its ugly head. You seem to be having an ideology vs. strategy war in your head, and strategy is losing badly.
I'd rather make incremental progress than none at all, or worse, go backwards. Obama is moving health care forward. He's smart enough to understand that there is intense and overwhelming resistance to single payer only. Having a government plan in competition with private plans still has heavy resistance, but not as much. That is presently our best shot at health care reform. Obama's assessment and plan of action is correct. If you turn against him, you may as well tune into Rush and shout Amen. You will be serving that agenda by helping fracture the progressive vote.