Two days from the highly anticipated healthcare summit, and one day after the White House posted it's proposal on where to begin negotiations between Democrats and Republicans, House Representative Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) said this morning that Republican cooperation would be unlikely.  Rep. Cantor appeared on Good Morning America this morning complaining that the summit wasn't starting the healthcare insurance debate from scratch, proposing once again a blank slate to presumably waste more time.

"The American people right now are the losers in all of this because the signals coming out of the White House don't bode well for positive health care reform. The president insists on bringing back a bill that the American people have resoundingly rejected," he said.

Unfortunately for Eric Cantor, the most recent polling done by the Washington Post and ABC shows that at lest 63% of Americans want legislators to continue trying to pass health insurance reform.  The other problem for Cantor's position is that, people only became enraged with the process when special deals were made for particular Senators, and were not angered by reform in general.  The problem is, that once again, the truth isn't what actually matters.  What matters is how you sell your position.

Set aside for the moment the humanitarian and compassion argument for affordable healthcare, because frankly that's not working.  People are worried about jobs and money, not just their own money, but they are worried about what government does with their money, and that's the angle that needs to be attacked much more than it has been.  The message war was lost in the face of record breaking lobbying, untold misinformation, and political cowardice, but none of that changes the fact that medical costs are going to bankrupt the federal government.

There are those who want to fix and expand the system, and there are those who want it to collapse and be phased out.  The next two months will reveal if Americans will get at least a portion of the change they were looking for, or the same old, same old.