HR 676, the single payer bill, is only 27 pages long, so as you can see, the House Democrats took an extra 973 pages to:

1. Fail to cover at least 10 million people (so much for everybody in, nobody out);

2. Cut spending on the unterbussen (the old, and the poor);

3. Guarantee a market for the insurance companies by forcing everyone to buy coverage;

4. Leave $350 billion a year in administrative savings on the table (single payer, by reducing overhead from 31% of every health care dollar to 3%, saves that much).

And then there's this part:

In an effort to get more quality for the least cost, a panel of doctors, patients and healthcare companies would weigh the effectiveness of different types of treatment.

Sure, I want for-profit health care companies making judgments on the quality of my health care. What could go wrong?

What a fucking mess. Nice work framing this debate, progressives!

NOTE And all of this, all of it, is a gigantic medical experiment performed on the American people without their informed consent. It's the most unethical action any medical person can perform If a doctor gave one patient a pill just to see what would happen -- or worse, was paid by as drug company to do it -- and got caught, they'd go to jail and it would be a nine-days wonder in our famously free press. But let "health care companies" and consultants and experts and career liberals go on TV and advocate for performing an experiment on millions of people without their informed consent, and nobody blinks an eye. It's a funny old world.

HR 676, the single payer bill, is only 27 pages long, so as you can see, the House Democrats took an extra 973 pages to:

1. Fail to cover at least 10 million people (so much for everybody in, nobody out);

2. Cut spending on the unterbussen (the old, and the poor);

3. Guarantee a market for the insurance companies by forcing everyone to buy coverage;

4. Leave $350 billion a year in administrative savings on the table (single payer, by reducing overhead from 31% of every health care dollar to 3%, saves that much).

And then there's this part:

In an effort to get more quality for the least cost, a panel of doctors, patients and healthcare companies would weigh the effectiveness of different types of treatment.

Sure, I want for-profit health care companies making judgments on the quality of my health care. What could go wrong?

What a fucking mess. Nice work framing this debate, progressives!

NOTE And all of this, all of it, is a gigantic medical experiment performed on the American people without their informed consent. It's the most unethical action any medical person can perform If a doctor gave one patient a pill just to see what would happen -- or worse, was paid by as drug company to do it -- and got caught, they'd go to jail and it would be a nine-days wonder in our famously free press. But let "health care companies" and consultants and experts and career liberals go on TV and advocate for performing an experiment on millions of people without their informed consent, and nobody blinks an eye. It's a funny old world.

">only 27 pages long, so as you can see, the House Democrats took an extra 973 pages to:

1. Fail to cover at least 10 million people (so much for everybody in, nobody out);

2. Cut spending on the unterbussen (the old, and the poor);

3. Guarantee a market for the insurance companies by forcing everyone to buy coverage;

4. Leave $350 billion a year in administrative savings on the table (single payer, by reducing overhead from 31% of every health care dollar to 3%, saves that much).

And then there's this part:

In an effort to get more quality for the least cost, a panel of doctors, patients and healthcare companies would weigh the effectiveness of different types of treatment.

Sure, I want for-profit health care companies making judgments on the quality of my health care. What could go wrong?

What a fucking mess. Nice work framing this debate, progressives!

NOTE And all of this, all of it, is a gigantic medical experiment performed on the American people without their informed consent. It's the most unethical action any medical person can perform If a doctor gave one patient a pill just to see what would happen -- or worse, was paid by as drug company to do it -- and got caught, they'd go to jail and it would be a nine-days wonder in our famously free press. But let "health care companies" and consultants and experts and career liberals go on TV and advocate for performing an experiment on millions of people without their informed consent, and nobody blinks an eye. It's a funny old world.