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This is from Medicare for All supporter "Faryn Balyncd" at Democratic Underground :
Despite 65% to 72% of voters supporting "a public plan like Medicare" for all, by January only 34% supported the emerging Frankenstein's monster of perpetual MANDATED enslavement to a cartel, a mutant creation whose only likeness to the promise of "reform" was in its now misleading name.
The message is loud & clear:
Americans continue to support for the president's campaign principles of healthcare reform:
- - - (1.) a public plan open to all
- - - (2.) no mandates
- - - (3.) no middles class tax hikes, specifically no John McCain-esque taxation of healthcare benefits
But as voters saw the Senate Finance hearing begin with the banning and literal arrest of the doctors and nurses supporting Single Payer, the selling of principle to Big Pharma and Big Insurance, finally the spectacle of the White House pressuring the Senate to bow to Joe Lieberman and crush the last remnant of a public option (the Medicare Buy-In Option), their anger grew.
 So if the only bill we "can pass now" is a corporate mandate that will destroy us at the polls, not to mention making future transition to Medicare-for-All more difficult, if not impossible, what is the alternative?
Perhaps we can regroup and try listening to the people:
(1) Kill the mandate now! (Are you listening, Nancy?)
(2) Stand on principle, and fight unwaveringly for Medicare-for-All.
(3) Give no quarter: Force the obstructionists to actually physically filibuster (let them stand up and drone on, with their urine bags in place, until the American people see them for the corporate tools that they are).
(4) If they are to defeat the plan Americans desire, Medicare-for-All, force them to publicly vote down an uncorrupted bill, and make them pay for it at the polls in November. The Republican game plan was for us to pass an unpopular corporate give-away while they kept their hands clean, and let us self destruct in November.
But they have no defense if we stand on principle for the American people.
"If Barack Obama’s bill gets changed to exclude the public entities, it is not health insurance reform…it rises and falls on whether the public is allowed to choose Medicare if they’re under 65 or not. If they are allowed to choose Medicare as an option, this bill will be real health care reform...."
- Howard Dean
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