Reply #48: This is a winning issue, if only the Dems had the courage to adopt it [View All]

Start talking about health care in any group of people, and it won't take a minute before someone comes up with an insurance company or HMO horror story. Nobody likes the current system except insurance company executives.

The trouble with Clinton's proposal was that it was too complicated, which meant that most people couldn't understand it without a lot of effort, and too willing to give the insurance companies what they wanted, which meant that it didn't change enough current practices. That's why it was easy for the "anti" lobby to scare people with the Harry and Louise ads.

What we need is a health care policy that can be summarized on the back of a postcard in words of no more than two syllables. Then there needs to be an intensive PR campaign showing actual cases from Canada and Western Europe.