1. It is not mutually exclusive that something is left-wing and benefits some big company or companies. It may be hypocritical, if you wish, but it can be both things.

And when it gets to be too much of both things, it usually ceases being liberal and starts being "centrist"... especially if it follows tenets that put Big Business in general before labor.

2. The flaws may be by design. Honestly a complete public system, like what Britain has, would be clearer to run and probably even less expensive to the consumer. But since Americans would never have that, first they had to pass a flawed plan so that later they can scrap that and introduce an American NHS.

I see no reason why a flawed plan has to be launched first, considering numerous other flawed plans have already been introduced. Americans en masse have simply not yet come to the collective conclusion that they do not have to tolerate a privately run health care system.


Btw, right now I'm listening to the instrumental "Summer Madness" by Kool and the Gang, and for some reason it always reminds me of you when I hear it.