"Meanwhile, as you know a lot of people have health insurance. How viable do you think it is to tell them to forget about their plans, they will be put into a new, standardized (single payer) government plan?"
Max,
Is that what HRC wants? If you are happy with your current insurance -- if you have any -- you can't stay with it? You prob. know more about this than me, but doesn't Australia and/or Canada have a system where there is guaranteed health care, but folks can stay with private insurers if they so choose? That seems more feasible for the US, to me. You're saying HRC would rip folks off from insurers they already had, or...?
Also, if Obama says that people must be REQUIRED to have insurance, does that mean that, like driving without auto insurance, you'd be breaking the law if you didn't have it? What the fuck? You said, "Wait for the details!" Well, I will very much be waiting for the details on that one. It seems ludicrous. You could say, "Well, he'd probably make subsidies available to auto enroll people." but like you said - "Wait for the details!" Okay, sure, but the TX primary is soon. Hope those details come out pretty freakin' soon.
-B.