The Gov't Health Insurance Plan(GHIP) has been code named the Public Option. Its like its DBA name or stage name.  Its really a marketing ploy conjured up to manipulate public opinion for something that has not been justified or even defined.

Hear we have Keith Obermann gleefully touting the latest independent study that says the waste in Medicare is more than Obama's original estimates.  So let me get this straight.  The existing gov't run health care is grossly inefficient with a half a trillion in waste and that's why we need to expand it? Or fix it to create another one? That make no sense whatsoever.

The fact is, the polls that reflect support for the "public option" are not valid because everyone's has a different idea of what a public option is, why its needed, how it will be paid for and work. Democrats are out there selling it like snake oil to cure everything including the common cold.

If cost and competition are truly the concern then there are many more ways to get there before using a socialistic gov't run model. 1)lift the anti-trust; 2)allow cross-state competition; 3) incentivize the non-profit sector to better compete with the private.  That would be a good enough start.

I guess I would like to convince democrats to act more moderately.  Rather than trying to stuff the agenda of their extreme members down our throats.  It’s only going to haunt them come elections.

The health insurance companies are not the demons democrats have made them out to be, they are operating under the rules our gov't has permitted. They have enjoyed a monopoly for all these years.  Why should anyone expect competition from them.  Have we expected competion from Major League Baseball?  Rather than knee jerking from one exteme to another (i.e. monopolistic capitalizm to socialism), lets implement smart social policies with moderation, & accountability.  Lets give the system that won the cold war, capitalizm & free markets, a decent chance before discounting it.