Senate may pass a fake public option.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/source-leadership-poised-to-add-public-option-moderates-mostly-mum.php

...it would not be operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, but by a separate entity, with a board of directors appointed by the government.
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If government employees run the public option, then they will get paid moderate salaries and premiums will go to care.

If private employees run a fake public option, then they will get paid millions and premiums will go to buy them mansions.

Don't piss on my parade!

So now that it appears that one may no longer be able to beat one's breast about the lack of a Public Option in the HRC bill, one must now find a new reason to be pissed, so "The Public Option is Fake!"

Yup, and we didn't land on the moon either, we blew it up last week to hide that fact.

If they pass something else, it isn't a public option, even if they call it that.

There is a reason the modifier "robust" has been seen in front of the term "public option" so often in the last several months. We have all (including you) known from the beginning that it is more than possible to create something called a "public option" which in reality accomplishes little to nothing. In fact there was and is every reason to believe that this is the tactic that some of the blue dog types would embrace, having to try to walk the tightrope between pissing off their constituents or pissing off their benefactors in the industry. In effect, try to appear as if you are doing something while actually doing nothing.

All of this is obvious enough to even a casual observer of politics that I cannot bring myself to believe you don't already understand it. Thus, your argument that people are just looking for reasons to be pissed rings quite false. Clearly you are attempting to champion some groups point of view, a group for whom a real reform in the Health Care industry would be a curse rather than a boon. Those who you choose to vilify here want nothing except real reform that helps real people. You are choosing the wrong side in this battle sir. I hope you change your mind.

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-Laelth

You know, like the government, but not the government, because that would be bad. But funded by the government all the same.

:crazy:

except the funding.

In two regions. A lot of government work is not done by government employees.

http://www.trailblazerhealth.com/About%20Us/Default.aspx?DomainID=1

However, why not call your Senators to make sure they do the right thing.