Atrios Fisks The Savvy Healthcare People

"Congratulations on being savvy!"  Ouch.  Atrios is not happy with the assorted d-bags who are too busy fluffing up the Obamacare shitshow to be talking loudly and consistently about the conservative foundation of Obama's health insurance support law and explaining that the conservative heritage (hah!) of Obamacare is the cause of its problems!  Many smart guys and gals understand that Medicare for all (universal Single Payer health care) would be better, more popular, and less expensive than just about any other health care delivery system in the known universe, and even it it is not possible in 2012, 2013, 2014, or whenever, it is good policy to educate and publicize the best alternatives.  This is perhaps the grossest failure of the universally awful Clinton presidency: missing the opportunity to build a Democratic Party healthcare infrastructure after the failure of Clinton's attempt--20 years of campaigning and educating and speechifying and winning elections would have made the job of the Democrats so much fucking easier in 2008 and quite possibly would have made Single Payer possible after the Obama election.  Nice going assholes!  Of course, Clintons and Obamas and their friends won't suffer under Clinton's failure and Obama's failure on healthcare, but millions of Americans will.