single payer is the compromise

watching certain mindless, smarmy obama cheerleaders get all wet and sticky and in your face over obama's midday prototype campaign speech, i am reminded of obama's--and america's--recent failure in healthcare reform.  the whole thing was kabuki theater, much as it was with clinton, with obama never intending to harm the for-profit healthcare industry.  this was made clear by the good and hard-working smart folks who have been working on the healthcare issue for years who kept shouting into the wind that the liberal position on healthcare is a nation health service and the conservative position is the for-profit horror we have now.  single-payer, which makes the government the payer of record and covers everyone while preserving the private health care delivery system, is the fucking compromise position!  the fact that obama did not start from national health and fight like hell against every step to the right, knowing that single-payer would be the best he could hope for, shows that he wasn't serious at all.  purple prose and belittling mental midgets like paul ryan in campaign speeches aside, i wonder how serious obama is when he starts from right of center and is willing to compromise to really far right, just not as far right as teabagging asshole republicans.