I think the so-called health-care reform proceedings are farcical. The "reformists" will almost certainly leave the system in private hands without any serious consideration of the single payer option (also see Why NPR Refuses to Report on the Single Payer Movement). The really frustrating part is the whole pretense of changing the system. The system (and the laws and violent forces that sustain it) is designed by the elite, controlled by the elite, and benefits the elite. Everyone else is rabble which supposedly participates in a profoundly democratic process. It's wise not to have any illusions about this.
On a side note, feel free to check up on Sen. Max Baucus's political "donations" (or bribes in clearspeak) in the last five years. That won't influence him at all, right ...
Also see Dave Lindorff's article titled 'Obama, Like Clinton Before Him, is Blowing the Chance for Real Health Care Reform' here
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