BFD 1.0 wasn't such a BFD after all then, now was it?
His proposal sounds an awful lot like the public option plan passed by Nancy Pelosi's US House in 2009, which the US Senate rejected in favor of its plan, which is what we have now, Obamacare.
The problem with the public option plan was that it threatened to undercut private insurance through unfair competition with its immediate access to the limitless deep pockets of the Federal Treasury.
Joe's a Fabian socialist, not a revolutionary, slow walking the country to the guillotine.
