Most arguments against the public option are based either on deliberate misrepresentation of what that option would mean, or on remarkably thorough misunderstanding of the concept, which persists to a frustrating degree: I was really surprised to see Joe Klein worrying about the creation of a system in which doctors work directly for the government, British-style, when that has nothing whatsoever to do with the public option as proposed. (Forty years of Medicare haven’t turned the US into that kind of system — why would having a public plan change that?)
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The only thing for sure is that if we ‘reform’ health care we will trade one set of problems for a different set of problems. In case you haven’t noticed even the supposed best health plans in the world aren’t a walk in the park. They, too, haven’t figured out the affordability issue.
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