Good editorial. I hope they're right.
Obama's Public Option Is No Longer Viable - washingtonpost.com
To listen to some Democrats talk, reform without a public option is scarcely worth doing. This is crazy. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.) has asserted that "without the public option, we'll have the same number of people uninsured. If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they'd be insured." But under the proposed reforms, even without a public option, insurance companies would have to agree to cover people regardless of their health status. The government would extend Medicaid coverage to millions and provide subsidies so that millions more could purchase insurance. Mr. Obama was right when he described the public option as "just one sliver" of the overall proposal.
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