The McCain Healthcare proposal is ... nothing to be excited about.
However, he might unwittingly have proposed the best thing to get to Universal Care. His plan could make things worse, so that the political chances of a single-payer system ... rise.
I wouldn't recommend that risk, those means to that end, but I'm more than happy to pick up calling cards from the rightwing, for that struggle, if it ever occurs:
Because of McCain's idea to end employer subsidies:
"We are concerned that some employers, particularly in this economy, might be motivated to exit the system," said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Paging Ezra Klein. This is a partial answer to your old question of how to transition from one system to the other. The 'opposition' has just acknowledged it.
