I'm deeply disappointed by the administration's backing off from the public option. The only health now assured by the plan is that of the insurance companies.
How about this, whenever the right-wing parrots complain about govenrment bureaucrats standing between them and their doctors, we reply that there are already nameless, faceless corporate bureaucrats standing there now. The difference is that these corporate bureeaucrats have a financial incentive to restrict or refuse care.
We need to go forward with the public option, if for no other reason than to find out which bureaucrats can do a better job of assuring our health care services.
There will at the least be cost savings, since the public plan won't need to pay hyper-inflated CEO salaries and provide profits and dividends for analysts and trust-funders.
