They should have paid a lot more attention to building a broad political alliance before they launched it. They should have been much more straightforward in explaining how the plan would work. They tried to disguise the plan. The trouble is, they fooled their supporters, but didn't fool their opponents. At the same time, we're seeing more of managed care, which was one of the main components of the plan, and not everybody is happy with it.
Doctors are very upset with it, and so are increasing numbers of patients.
I think we'll see more of what we saw last year, when there was a movement in many states to require insurance companies to allow mothers of newborns to stay in hospital two days instead of one day. I expect there will be more of those kinds of movements as insurance company abuses come to light. I wish that will was easy to find, but it isn't. Arthur Allen is Washington D.C.-based journalist whose articles have appeared in the Village Voice and the New Republic. But I think when he beats up on women, on gays, on blacks, I think that is something we should not tolerate.