If everyone would just listen to me, everything would be fine.....

Funny how that works...

"But you collectively--i.e., the American people--are a huge political problem.

Yes, polls show people support universal health care in the abstract. They may even say they re willing to pay more taxes for it. But once the debate turns real, they get skittish. Most people, after all, have health insurance already. The possibility of changing that insurance scares them, even if it s likely a change for the better. And so enthusiasm for reform inevitably gets soft, given the opponents of universal health care the political support they need to carry the day."