<div>Another example of us foolishly supporting the expansion of healthcare coverage under the existing system while it still exists, as opposed to rallying the masses behind far better health care plans proposed by the spartacist league, kropotkin, left business observer and jim straub.... ie international workers revolution for socialism! </div> <div> </div> <div>Seriously though, the internal strategic machinations are all about winning universal hc; there will be a lot of massachusettes and california style things supported in the interim though while we build for that fight, which is stillborn anyway if the R's retain the presidency.  Hopefully the left will prove seiu's pragmatic ways wrong by taking a year off navel-gazing and peanut gallerying to build power and win single-payer in a state or two where they're strong, but, it's hard to see ten thousand leftists spending a year talking to a million non-leftists about what they want and how to win it. </div> <div> </div> <div>Anna B and Andy S, as usual, seem to have the conviction of a doorknob when it comes to it.  Hopefully Eliseo or Kay will be our next intl prez.</div> <div> </div> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Subject: [lbo-talk] SEIU praises Romney's lame-ass health scheme<br>To: lbo-talk <<a href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org"> lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:723E62A8-058D-4573-989F-E886A6482FB7@panix.com">723E62A8-058D-4573-989F-E886A6482FB7@panix.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed <br><br>[from The Note]<br><br>With regards to Romney's health-care plan, the Hotline's Riki Parikh<br>picks up on SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger telling ABC News on<br>Friday: "You have to give him credit for it. He was willing to step <br>up and do something." Burger added that SEIU would "love to here [sic-<br>DH] Mitt Romney talk about how he wants to expand" health care when<br>SEIU teams up with the Center for American Progress to host a health- <br>care forum in Las Vegas.<br></blockquote></div>