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Originally Posted by Squabble
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I especially like this part:
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The debate over the public option has, as I said, been depressing in its inanity. Opponents of the option — not just Republicans, but Democrats like Senator Kent Conrad and Senator Ben Nelson — have offered no coherent arguments against it. Mr. Nelson has warned ominously that if the option were available, Americans would choose it over private insurance — which he treats as a self-evidently bad thing, rather than as what should happen if the government plan was, in fact, better than what private insurers offer.
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An excellent example of the incoherency and grasping at straws of the public option opponents. Like I said in another thread, if the opposition had some constructive criticism to offer, I'd welcome it and it would go a long way toward good reform of health care. But instead the opposition spreads fear about things that don't exist and were never proposed like death panels. That contributes absolutely nothing to intelligent and meaningful health care reform but I guess that was never the goal of the mainstream opposition in the first place.
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