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Centrist Nuggets
by digby
Via Greg Sargent, I see this Matt Miller op-ed beseeching the Supreme Court to validate the individual mandate. Greg cites this "nugget":
If the GOP succeeds in invalidating the one way to use private health plans to achieve universal coverage, frustrated Americans will eventually say, “Just give us single-payer and be done with it.” I can’t say whether that tipping point comes at 60 million uninsured or 70 million. But it will happen.
Oh No!
I this this is the card carrying centrist's way of demagogueing an issue. I find it mildly hilarious myself. If he's trying to pry away liberal support for the mandate there isn't a better way to do it.
And needless to say conservatives don't want the mandate or single payer and they'll be happy to wait until there are 70 million people uninsured to have the fight again. They want people to barter with their doctors with chickens and shop around for cut-rate angioplasties. Basically, they think that people who can't afford expensive health care don't deserve health care.
My blog troll deserves fitting medical attention. As a distant cousin to being a part of humanity. Only [s]he deserves BENWAY.
__________UPDATE__________
Wholly unrealted, but more Digby, here, on euro-crisis theater of the day, and austerity.
Italy can sell its gold to avert evil consequences. German gold is different. Off limits. Suppose for a moment that Merkel has a Mother Hubbard experience, were German gold to be shown to be a phantom, or all in New York. Call the suggestion extreme? But I further suggest I'm not the only one to be curious about guarded vaults ordianary mortals never get to see inside of.
Can you imagine incredulity, if we had Morgan or Goldman in Mother Hubbard outfits having to say, "Well, there was some - we recall - but it was in the Trade Center, which in hindsight suggests the debris should not have been so hastily all hauled away to New Jersey."