Single Payer or Nothing Advocates Still Don't Get It

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

There's a new Field Poll out today saying that 72 percent of Californians favored the Assembly-passed health care reform bill that failed to get to the Governor's desk earlier this year. The survey reflects "the public's own willingness to have this reform structured in a way that's palatable to a wide swath of people," Field's Mark DiCamillo told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Yet there are some single-payer advocates that still don't get it, as the article points out, with one legislator saying it wasn't "real reform."

Oh really?

Providing 800,000 kids with health care isn't "real reform"? Giving more than 3 million more Californians health care coverage isn't "real reform"? Having the first and most progressive health care law in place in the U.S. isn't "real reform"?

The fact is that both Democratic frontrunners have embraced proposals just like the one passed by the Assembly (Hillary Clinton's is extremely close; Barack Obama's has most of its features, including a requirement that health care be bought for kids).

By any measure, that's real reform.

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