What is logical?

So the Health care debate is really starting to heat up. Last week's crazy news out of the CBO is that the plans being discussed on the hill are all very expensive, costing upwards of a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. There has been a lot of criticism about this report, ranging from the report being rushed, not enough information given to the CBO when they made their report, the report is just plain wrong, etc. That doesn't matter. What matters is that now there is a seed of doubt out there that a public option is a good idea, and opponents to the public option (GOP, AMA, health care execs, etc) are going to use this as ammuinition. The President needs to get a public option enacted. One that isn't crippled. One that can negotiate lower prices. Allows people to import cheaper drugs from Canada. Uses economies of scale to strong-arm companies into lowering prices. Its the only way to get costs under control. I hope that the public option becomes the preferred method that people get healthcare. That it does dramatically lower costs and drive private plans out, because the private plans put the bottom line above all else, and we don't need that in health care.

Robert Reich, and Robert Reich from 5 days ago.
72% of Americans want a public option
Obama's own Dr. wants Medicare for all (single-payer)
Chicago Tribune opinion piece in favor of single-payer
Obama's self-imposed need to compromise could lead to disaster.
One Senator is willing to support single-payer publicly: Senator Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota)
Brad DeLong on how to save 2 Trillion dollars over 10 years in healthcare spending.
The American Prospect does a good job describing what a bad form of the public option could be.

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