Reply #17: Not at all. Rather, support a real plan

[Oregone]

(example: single payer)

President Obama's plan isn't a plan actually. Its a direction or method, with no real destination yet. Its like telling a bunch of people to hop into a clown car without pointing them on the right road or giving them a map; eventually they will get *somewhere* I guess.

If this public option plan is good enough, it will draw support on its own two legs once it materializes. In the mean time, its basically just ambiguous feel-good rhetoric with little direction that you are asking people to support. If you create enough leftward pressure supporting something real, you can influence the end result when the plan is actually drafted. If you support an ambiguous pledge for reform, for the sake of reform, you get whatever you get, period (including, perhaps, egg in face).