Es chatai ani mazkir, but I listen to liberal radio. It is clear that the public option is simply a stepping stone for single payer; that IS the ultimate goal.
Right now I just heard an interview on an Air America program with Marlo Thomas, focusing on her work with St. Jude Hospital. The hostess gushed, look at the success rates with childhood cancer they have – see what happens when no one is turned away and money is spent! If it weren’t erev Shabbos I would call in – all that money is from private funding and philanthropy, isn’t it? What comes from the government? Can someone crunch the numbers and see what would happen if they would rely on government funding?