Reply #31: Because Corporations (and the RW) fight ANY intrusion into unfettered free-marketeerism [View All]

RWers do the same. It's about control, not about what "hurts" them. They oppose raising the minimum wage too - or in the last analysis, any minimum wage - not because it hurts them but because it is an imposition of on their total "market freedom." Which is smart strategy. A lot smarter than going to the bargaining table with the lowest offer possible, which is what our Democrats unfortunately seem to do most of the time.

Hillary's health care plan was, as someone up thread said, a convoluted mess that no one could understand. It was easy to demonetize. Despite its Corporate-friendliness, it was unacceptable to them because it would have been a first step in a direction they oppose. And its defeat set any threat of health care reform back a decade, at least. However, its passage would have done little to avert the health care crisis, and might also have set the discussion back years.

I remember those times quite well. And maybe we "lefties" (most of whom have also worked on and supported incremental change, for all the good it has done, which isn't much) have enough sense not to alienate both our supporters and our enemies at the same time. Or, at the least, to know who our enemies are. In this case, the for-profit health care industry.