Bobo Goes All Rational On Us

David Brooks today admitted to ABC's Jake Tapper that he would prefer a single payer health insurance plan to the current Senate bill.

Conservative columnist David Brooks expressed support Sunday for a system of health care otherwise demonized in the press by the right wing. "I wouldn't mind a single-payer. Frankly I prefer a single-payer to what we have now," Brooks told ABC's Jake Tapper.

Brooks' support for single-payer comes late in the health care reform debate.

He was asked about single-payer on July 29th but deflected the question, writing, "I'm not that thrilled with the insurance companies." He also wrote, "There is no way something that big and complex and dynamic can be run out of Washington."

Brooks said he can't support the health reform passed by both houses of Congress. "I oppose it," he said. "It's a close call for me." He has consistently charged that health care cost controls are not enough to support the Democrats' bill.

You know what?

In the end, from Jane Hamsher to David Brooks to Michele Bachmann, the country is going to eventually come to the conclusion at some point that single payer is the only real solution to both reducing costs and providing care.

Bobo's finally figured it out.  This bill is only a start, frankly.  It's better than the status quo, but again that's only an indication of how truly awful the status quo is.  The profit motive in health care has to go.