Have I mentioned how much I hate the Baucus Plan? What I really hate is how politically stupid it is to even discuss forcing people to buy private health insurance at unaffordable prices. It’s bad enough to force people to buy something from a corporation so that they can drive. We can always adjust our lifestyles in such a way that we don’t need to drive. But we all are subject to the Baucus Mandate, no matter what we do. If we don’t become customers of the very health insurance companies we loathe, we will get slapped with heavy fines. Most of the time, the Republicans distort and demagogue our policies. There is no need to distort this bag of shit. Just tell the truth and the Democrats will think it’s hell.
Any Democrat who willingly even so much as debates the Baucus Plan as something plausible is doing incalculable damage to the cause of health care reform.
