On Friday, I observed that the Democrats were caving in too early on the question of what health care plan is the best plan to move to. It is obviously single-payer–no contest. Economically and morally. The leeches of the private insurance industry will always undercut any plan that keeps a role for for-profit health care insurance.

   And the caving in continues. Paul Krugman writes today:

Some health care reformers wanted the Democrats to endorse a single-payer, Medicare-type system for all. On the sheer economic merits, they’re right: single-payer would be more efficient than a system that preserves a role for private insurance companies.

   In other words, if you are a conservative and you are looking just at the numbers, single-payer is the only way to go. And, then, he caves in:

But it’s better to have an imperfect universal health care plan than none at all — and the only way to get a universal health care plan passed soon is to inoculate it against Harry-and-Louise-type claims that people will be forced into plans “designed by government bureaucrats.” So the Democratic platform emphasizes choice, declaring that Americans “should have the option of keeping the coverage they have or choosing from a wide array of health insurance plans, including many private health insurance options and a public plan.” We’ll see if that’s enough.

   If we want to health care system we deserve, then, yes, it won’t be handed to us. We will have to fight. And the scum and leeches in the insurance industry–including the CEOs who make millions of dollars–are going to hold on to the last fightinb breathe to their little kingdoms even if it means your mother or aunt or friend dies from inadequate care or is driven into bankruptcy because they can’t afford coverage. These people are organized crime dressed up in nice suites working in corporate suites.