Public Options

Why have the Democrats allowed the Republicans to redefine the debate once again? The "public option" is not about competition with insurance companies, it is about providing health care to millions of men, women and children who do not have access to health care because they cannot afford health insurance.

Look at what kind of jobs are being created in America, now and during the last decade. They are, by and large, not full-time jobs with benefits. Every year there will be more and more families without coverage, getting their healthcare at the ER, suffering with ear infections with no antibiotics. And yet our "leaders" want to worry about competition with private health insurance companies. One clue to the insurance industry: the people who would opt for the government plan are either uninsured and you're not competing for their dollars, or they are paying way too much for coverage. Once again, what is sold to the American public as a free-market economy is actually a corporate welfare state.

Use your public option and contact your elected officials.