Philip K. Howard, "chairman of Common Good, a nonprofit legal reform coalition, and a partner with the law firm Covington & Burling LLP" gets a free pass from WaPo to lie about health reform.
Most of the people you're trying to pressure are wealthy enough that they wouldn't suffer a whit from your plan. And you're not going to get any better solution until that problem is resolved: with only a few exceptions, the only way to hold public office in the United States is to be independently wealthy or supported by wealthy corporate interests.
The myth of a representative democracy. The elites have always controlled your country and they've always run it for their own benefit and your population has never once been willing to do a damned thing about it. Hell, the elites that founded your country gave you the ability to eliminate the problem without shedding a single drop of blood or raising a single hand in anger and you still haven't resolved it after nearly a quarter of a millennium.
I'd hate to live somewhere this could happen (link goes to video).
What sort of barbarians think so little of human life that they condemn a two year old to certain death for the heinous crime of getting cancer? If this woman doesn't find a job with health benefits soon (and if she doesn't get denied coverage because of the "pre-existing condition") we may find out.
Normally I ignore right-wing wharrgarbl. The right-wingers have proven themselves over the last several years to be wholly dishonest, incompetent, and morally bankrupt, and I generally don't consider the opinions of anybody on the right to be worth the time it takes to ball them up and put them in the trash. Too often, especially since Obama's election, have their insane ranting led me down the path of "Mustardgate" and the utterly retarded "birther" movement. So, now, they garner no respect
If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.