I have yet to see any of these penny wise, pound foolish jerks address the costs of NOT having health care reform with a public option. It has to be obvious to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear that the cost of doing a good job of health care reform with the proper inducements for all involved, hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, etc., is much less than going along the way we are doing now. That the money for reform comes out of tax dollars and the money for going as we are now comes directly out of people’s pockets is irrelevant. A good bit of the cost of going as we are is from sick or dead people who are unproductive and who require resources that otherwise could be put to productive use.

Nah, not gonna fly.