Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes, March 10, 2010 When I told friends I was on my way to the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer conference, held last weekend, they all said, “I bet that’ll be a bunch of long faces.” I predicted not - these were people who’d always known the health care reform debate in Congress would come up short. Even single-payer advocates didn’t know just how bad the bills would be, of course, but we knew that when the dust settled the insurance companies would still be in charge. “We’re making progress on single payer - the corporations want to make you the single payer,” said Chris Townsend, UE political director. ... Toxic