I'm just commenting on the apparent flip-flop.
The majority says it wants universal coverage. You can achieve that with a public scheme or by insurer compulsion and individual mandate. Hopefully the public can be educated that it's not possible to oppose both if you want universal coverage- unless there's a Plan C out there?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
