re: #715 soap_man

Obama is absolutely correct that choice will go a long way in reducing costs. But the public option will only give people one other choice beyond their employer based coverage.

Detach it from work. Make it like car insurance. If you want cheap insurance, get the Geico-type coverage. You want the best, get State Farm or Allstate. I’m all for that.

And the point of what you are saying, if i read it correctly, is to make us cost-conscious consumers, a vital step imho. Unlike Obdicut, who believes that we should replace a crappy state option with a better one, I believe that the current crappy state option is proof that the state sucks at this job and should not therefore be permitted to suck on a wider scale.