I actually think there would have been LESS hatred for a public option, since it would have been an expanded public service (there’s precedent for that) rather than being forced to buy a product from one of the more corrupt private industries that exists today.[/quote]
“But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it….” Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House 2010
Maybe a real debate and real discussion instead of a ram rod ‘we won’ stuff it attitude of the first two year which is now the permanent attitude of both sides.