This won't be mentioned at Fox News. The talking heads there would start exploding.

but the insurance companies don't like it. Therefore, it must go!!

"The top-line result is 65% in favor, 26% opposed. Among Democrats only, it's 81%-12%, and independents are at 61%-30%. And among Republican respondents, 47% are in favor, to 42% opposed."

Mindboggling.

So, let me get this straight. I've been listening to the MSM preaching o me for a half a year that the PO is some fringy and unpopular lefty idea that is a non-starter and wont' happen.

And yet, it is overwhelmingly popular, even among Republicans?

Obviously, these corrupt Blue Dog crooks have to go, but how do we vote these MSM jackasses out of office?

As Ezra pointed out, Mark Kleiman has a good point:

Medicare, Part E (for “everyone”)
http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/uncategorized/medicare-part-e-for-everyone/

We really should have framed this a lot better.

The fall back from Single Payer is a Medicare for All / Medicare Part E with an "Opt In" if you want it.

Then the fall back from that would be Medicare Opt-In for 50-64 and Uninsured Under 21.

Then a fall back from that of Medicare Opt-In for 55-64 and Uninsured Under 18 and Uninsured Who Are College Enrolled Taking X Credits a Semester/Quarter.

Then a fall back from there if people scream about the Death Of Medicare to a strong National Public Option that everyone could move into, even those offered Private Insurance if they felt they could get a better deal.

And that being the final fall back position.

But to have those, you needed to start off with a strong Single Payer and Medicare For All Opt-In plan on the table from the start. The White House and Congressional Leadership needed to line up powerful water carriers for Single Payer who talked loudly that they wouldn't budge, while setting up someone to be the voice of reason for the Medicare For All Opt-In. He'd have to be from the ConservaDems, but he's also have to be completely on board the team. When people try to go to the right of him to water it down, he's the voice of reason to the ConveraDems and Blue Dogs that they can't pull those Progressives over to a bill that had nothing, but we probably could get them over to the Medicare Opt-In.

But the White House and Leadership left so much in the holster to fight this war that they started several battles into it, and already on the defensive rather than the offensive.

John

This single issue is the template for everything wrong with our democracy. If you listen to the MSM you would think that a Public Option was a left wing radical plan and it did not have much of a chance of getting enacted. If you read this poll you realize that it is a plan that is favored by a huge majority of Americans and should be enacted fairly quick and simple.

What is the distortion in this democracy??? CORPORATIONS! The money making interests of a handful of corporations completely and mercilessly kills off the heart of our democracy and replaces it with a vast MSM misinformation campaign, then pays off a majority of our elected representatives to ignore the people and work only in the interest of the corporations.

If this is not painfully obvious and true nothing is. This is a nightmare that we need to wake up from and take back the heart and soul of our freedom. Yet as we breath the right wing Supreme Court is preparing to rule yet again that CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE and have a right to FREE SPEECH that allows them to pour unlimited money into elections and distort the debate even more in the interest of corporate profit and farther away from human needs and common decency.

I am very afraid for our democracy.

"With Medicare, and justice for ALL"
I can see a new version of the pledge coming soon.

In my comment above I said the "option" will be administered by corporations hired by the Secretary of State. I meant to say Sec of Dept of Health and Human Services.