Ingredients:
1 simple plan
1 clear spokesperson (more to taste)
1 powerful will to succeed
1 strong showing of public support
1 determination to make opponents explain
Mixing instructions over the fold...
Creating a Health Reform Masterpiece Your Guests Will Love
This recipe has the virtue of being simple, bold and promising very satisfying results.
Before proceeding, discard older, failed recipes that rely on stale, tasteless and ineffective ingredients like "bipartisanship" (since no one seems to stock it anyway).
Step 1: Plan
Start with a simple, comprehensible plan.
We like "Medicare for All." It's just so easy to work with, and is a known crowd-pleaser, it appeals even to those with hard-to-please appetites.
And at a slim 30 pages (PDF), it won't bust your budget.
Step 2: Leadership
Take a definite, easy-to-understand position on Medicare for All. Make it a moral cause. Explain in clear, effective terms why it's cost-effective, fair, accessible and good for business. Bring forward others who have effectively argued the same positions in the past and allow them to do the same. Repeat.
Use a big megaphone to tell everyone why the simple, elegant solution is the best one. Point out how it conforms to the public's true wishes on health reform.
Step 3: Satisfaction
Here's where satisfaction comes in. People like Medicare. They favor the idea of expanding Medicare to people 55 and older. Heck, even centrists and conservatives like Medicare. Medicare is always popular, so more Medicare can only lead to more satisfaction.
Now, curmudgeonly critics might not like the idea of passing the Medicare around the table. You know the type, the ones who have already loaded their plates with Medicare (or something rather like it) themselves, but just don't like sharing it with others.
Ask them, "If Medicare is so delicious, why can't we have some too?"
Or maybe just say, in a loud clear voice, "Please Pass the Medicare for All."
Enjoy.