It's really an astonishing situation with health care in the USA. Like Dennis Kucinich AND Michael Moore, I am in favor of this wretched bill passing....because it will make some improvements to a very, very bad situation by providing some regulation of the private health insurance industry...

So I hope it passes.

This does not mean people should not be aware what a terribly bad bill it is in most ways, because it forces millions of people to purchase private health insurance, which is simply scandalous. It's a direct attack on the freedom of choice of the general public in that regard. It's almost unbelievable. Although the bill does make some improvements here and there, it is basically a huge financial giveaway to the private health insurance lobby by getting them millions more customers, and it is their lobbying money and propaganda which has brought that about.

This is not an example of a democracy, it's an example of a corrupt financial oligarchy.

What the Republicans want would probably be even worse, because they would, I assume, do absolutely nothing to regulate the health insurance industry.

So what can you do when 2 sets of elected scoundrels serve a great financial oligarchy rather than serving the public who voted for them?

There is one other reason I DO want to see this bill pass. If it doesn't, the strength and viability of Obama's administration will be finished and there will be no further hope of anything useful getting done in the remainder of his term of office.

I think the reasons I've cited above are the probable reasons for Dennis Kucinich to have decided to vote for the bill. It's a case of picking the better of two very poor alternatives...better that this crummy bill should pass than that it should fail to.