Thanks For Coming In, Josh

Josh Marshall, well-known idiot and all-around douchebag in training, is shocked, just shocked that single-payer would not have been a viable option if the president had agitated for it for a few months as soon he was elected.  No shit, really?  Marshall is being a disingenuous cockbag by pretending to not realize that since no Democratic big-time players have been working within the system for single-payer or Medicare for All in any serious way, the movement for universal coverage has remained securely in the realm of the activist and reasonable, sane American.  No, as Josh probably knows--or maybe not, since he is such a dim fucking bulb--the healthcare delivery and insurance industries have owned our one-party politics since the New Deal sputtered out, and that Medicare only happened because the best bet is to not cover the old folks, so the industry did not fight too much to keep 'em.  If the Democratic Party was truly interested in bringing universal healthcare to the United States--be it National Health or Single-Payer--they would have been educating and advocating for it since the 1960's.  They haven't, they don't and they won't.  The only healthcare Democrats care about is the bullshit that Clinton and Obama pulled to fully support the industries that are the true masters.  Obama's program was born at the Heritage Foundation.  We are truly the stupidest place on Earth.