it's a classic case of incremental ism vs. a bold paradigm shift. I'd love to see single payer. But where does the support come from? Even in the Democratic primary, if you wanted single payer, it was Kucinich. Not even within the Democratic party is there support for real health care reform from the actual candidates. You still get shouted down sometimes on Democratic Underground if you support single payer - I agree that it's a sad state that to support what the majority of Democrats support gets you called a dreamer on a site like this. The teabaggers get way more traction in the political system out of proportion to their numbers because they are vociferous about their core issues. Until Democrats do that, we'll get less than our share of results from the strength of our representation in Congress. Only people power and good persuasion from the Democratic left can shift that.