I think that breaking the bill up is the best way to achieve anything... Take the stuff that the public most favors and *understands* and work up from there... This will also put the Repubs on the defensive... The 2010 elections will be lost by the party who is caught on defense... The Dems can kill two birds with one stone here...

I mean, if you just take something such as what used to be called "Patients Bill of Rights", meaning no cancellations for getting sick, no descrimination for pre-existing conditions, etc. and push that by itself there will be Repubs who will cross the isle because these are populist policies... Right now populist is in so whomever seems the most in tune with this do just fine...

Yeah, sure... In a perfect world we'd love to have single payer universal health insurance... The US is far froma perfect world right now... The Dems have to beat the corporation to the populist message or the corporations will run the Dems over...

B~