Reply #87: I think everyone has a gut reaction to support anything that's an "option"

[TheWebHead]

it just gets a little trickier when it's more fully explained that they're paying for it and that more than likely the savings would be negligible or non-existent since the health insurance space as it stands involves many non profits and for profits with after tax margins of 3%... When a government run plan starting from scratch employs lifers with union jobs and generous pensions competes with the experienced survival of the fittest private insurers who have razor thin margins, I can't imagine the results would've been pretty unless they paid out medicare rates to providers or ran operations with huge losses under the implicit guarantee the government to bail them out, either of which would open an entirely different can of worms.


as for Obama, if he's getting labeled socialist every other sentence from the right, if the left starts howling and calling him a corporatist, those not on the political fringe will start saying, okay, the wingnuts on either side don't seem to like him, so that's reassuring.