If even O is up for it, then that's the new normal.
Republican Extremism Is Turning Democrats Left on Health Care
It would be extremely reasonable for a liberal who favors Obama-Romney-style subsidized private insurance to conclude that market-based insurance is simply too vulnerable to right-wing sabotage, and the only safe path for covering people who can’t afford their own insurance is through public programs.
One of the things conservatives have been completely oblivious to is the degree to which their manic uncompromising stance has strengthened the case for more left-wing health-care reforms within the Democratic Party while undermining the basis for more moderate ones.
Obama implemented a moderate, market-based health-care reform.
Conservatives freaked out, called it socialism, and threw themselves into a campaign to destroy it by making market-based reforms legally and commercially vulnerable.
So then Obama is responding by proposing a more government-based reform that can withstand these attacks.
And the right’s response to these events is … to conclude they were right all along to accuse Obamacare of being a secret socialist plot.
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