unless you think that it's a good value to get $200 billion in subsidies for the uninsured for a $900 billion price tag, insurance mandates, and all the rest of the candy and cookies for the health insurance industry. Mainly, the article just continues an obsessive focus on personality (Dean) rather than policy, and that's one of the big fat failures of the MSM in recent decades as it is. It reinforces the meme that Democrats (liberal Democrats in particular) are elitist, a shell game that is one of the big reasons that truly progressive legislation never seems to get traction. There's plenty of ways to identify how privilege functions in this society (including who gets to write for Atlantic Monthly - probably a "broad mass of college educated white voters" indeed). But the HCR bill needs to be debated and decided ON ITS MERITS - benefits provided, cost controls, who it covers. It's that simple. To use this occasion to bash the Democratic left is - at best, curious. If we allow this kind of superficial journalism to deepen the wedge between moderate/liberal Democrats - it's no wonder that we've got a Democratic president, close to 60 senators, and still can't manage to pass a decent bill.