re: #184 wozzablog

Horse trading happens in all democracies. My main concern is that the US legislature (of the Presidents own party) managed to muff a fairly simple task of implementing the main policy goal he had - and not one which at the time was particularly unpopular in the polls - i linked a Kaiser survey at the time which gave the Public Option plan 65% approval.

I couldn’t see that sort of monumental failure happening in Britain.

Britain doesn’t have a major political party that rejects the notion of universal health care. Nor do they have a legislative chamber that allows for one person to have the power to prevent a public option from coming up for a vote via the filibuster even thought it would have passed.

Public approval doesn’t get you very far under those circumstances. Maybe if those of us who support the public option had shown up at townhalls and behaved like TPers things would have worked out differently.