Reply #27: I guess I'm more optimistic than some. [View All]

[Jackpine Radical]

I saw something indicating that Obama has in the past favored a single-payer system, but that he has taken a blander reform" position in the campaign in order not to draw too much fire from the big-dollar insurance interests. I think he will start with some sort of compromise solution but move toward single-payer as the industry-favored alternatives prove unworkable and unwieldy. I think something has been unleashed with all this hope and change fever in the air, and once the moorings are cut, the trip may be a much wilder one than we imagined at the outset.