Just so we're clear.
The Democrats in the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives are not interested in becoming your doctors. They're not medical professionals. Presently, they're sanitation engineers. Yes, I mean janitors and garbagemen and women. Seriously, what do you think they've been doing for the past seven months? Every piece of legislation from the legislators, every piece of leadership from the executives, all their efforts have been directed to cleaning up the piles and piles and piles of malodiferous dung left behind from years of reckless Republican rule.
They don't have time to run your HMO. They don't have time to manage your medical care, so they're not even going to try. (And give the death panels a rest, unless you work for FOX "News" and you have a responsibility to your employer to undermine the administration.) No, all our elected officials want to do, besides get re-elected and receive fellatio from ladies and gentlemen of varying levels of attractiveness, is find a way to keep your escalating health care COSTS from causing even more of you to slip into bankruptcy. That's why all the talk of government-run health care is a giant scare tactic. Democrats are interested in establishing a government-run health INSURANCE plan. No care. Just insurance. You know, to prevent companies from gouging you, not that they ever would, not when all their shareholders demand is that fewer and fewer claims be honored and that profits continue to escalate. (Did you catch the sarcasm, or was it too obvious?)
That's what is meant by the term "public option." An option to buy insurance from the government. It's not a green light for something like "Obamacare" in which the President might dedicate an afternoon to making house calls, or reviewing your pre-existing conditions, or arranging appointments for you to see a doctor in Anchorage three months from now for that odd-hued boil on your behind.
Obama, The Great Redistributor, is aiming to give your real financial relief in the one spot of your budget that needs it the most; the public option is a gratuitous naked effort to redistribute wealth from insurance company profits to your wallet. You can say no if that sounds awful.
(Hey, incidentally, the term "Obamacare" needs some work, my reactionary conservative nutjob friends. You used "Hillarycare" in '93. That worked. But it was lame then and now just sounds unimaginative when it plops from your lips today. Try harder.)
Anyway, to explain my point further, I snagged the upcoming paragraph from Politico, where the writing is clearer, conciser and generally less juvenile than on my blog.
The White House line has been: “We have been saying all along that the most important part of this debate is not the public option, but rather ensuring choice and competition. There are lots of different ways to get there.” But now [Obama's] going to step on the gas a little harder. One top official gave this formulation: “He has consistently said that he thinks the public option is an important way to make sure that there is both cost and competition control. He’s also said consistently that if someone can show him a better way or another way to get there, he’d be happy to look at it. But he’s never committed to going with another way. He’s always said he’d be happy to look at any proposal that gets to these goals, but that he thinks this is probably the best better way to do it.”
As you can glean from those words, Obama is set to deliver a major speech soon on this issue. Wednesday, actually. Pay attention.
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