Response to this analysis, please…
- Obama is locked into his plan or at most a Baucus-like plan.
- But, if Congress miraculously presented him with a single-payer bill, he wouldn’t veto it.
- Congress will not pass single-payer unless put under tremendous pressure.
- Sources of pressure: large and/or powerful corporations finally sick of the whole mess; Obama-activists who could hit the streets again and sell neighbors, co-workers, relatives on single-payer, tipping enough congress members; any others?

So …
Where is the door-to-door for single-payer?
Who is organizing the large-corporations-for-single-payer lobby?
Why is progressive opinion so fragmented on this and is there any way to converge progressive opinion on the one or two most viable single-payer scenarios (Medicare for all or whatever else). Where (one place, please) would that convergence be carried out? Would you sign up to whatever that single-payer convergence is (as you probably signed up for Obama, despite Hillaryish or Naderish or other misgivings).
Or is belly-aching too much fun?

And it seemed like the only fixes for market distortions that Baucus is proposing are more market distortions.

I think our whole system ought to be nationalized, and start over. If they want to semi-privatize later, we can look at that; but for now, I’m so sick and tired of the business values distorting my healthcare relationships that I just…. want …… it ….. allllll….. gone!

But what would all those poor dears do with such a shock???
All those dear little doctors who’ve built their lives getting to the clinic each day motivated only by profit and money??

I had hoped that since I’m over 55 I could escape this mess and qualify
for the lowering the age for qualifying for medicare. But even here, he
describes it as “buy-in”. Buy-In!

hell, i don’t have a clue – let alone a model, suitable or not.

in order of priority:

1) enrich the already rich by taking from the not-rich
2) dissemble the problem so no one really knows what the problem is, can properly fashion a solution, or realize the chosen solution is to enrich the already rich
3) make the actual problem worse by doing (1) and (2)
4) identify and solve a real problem – not so much

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Impossible to stay clean. The boat was filthy.

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German private funds dominate the worldwide container ship market with ownership of some 3,000+ ships.

I had to do a double take on that one. There was a time when the US Merchant Marine ruled the seas. Shipping companies then started registering their ships in other countries, usually dictator-led Latin American, to cut the costs of crews and maintenance. Then came the dominance of container ships.