Optional Option - SAY WHAT!

It looks like the Duracell batteries are not the only things that keep going and going and going. Our beloved lawmakers in Congress are still haggling over a Public Option for the proposed Health Care Reform Act.

First of all, any reasonably intelligent person knows that the Public Option is good, let me repeat, good for the uninsured and under-insured citizenry. That is the main reason that the "bought and paid for" members of Congress, both Democrat and Republican, have pretended to find fault with it. No one but the greedy and heartless Insurance Industry executives would be against this reform. Any kind of real reform (i.e., Public Option) would threaten their bloated incomes.

That, my friends, is all that this opposition is about. I don't know why the smart politicians, including our beloved President will not just come out and say it. They know it - we all know it.

And now, the Congress is playing along with the opponents by offerring a Public Option with an Opt-Out (for the States) Option. By definition and description, anything that is offerred as an "option" is already optional. You don't need an invitation to "opt-out", only to "opt-in". But, in reality, what does the State need any kind of "option" for anyway? This (the Plan, as well as the Option) is for the individual, not for the State. The individual needs to have an option of enrolling in the Public Insurance Plan or a private insurance plan. Of course, this is the very reason why so many of the people do not currently have adequate insurance, because there is NO option. The Insurance giants gladly take advantage of this by over charging us and what's more, by reducing or refusing coverage of certain conditions. If the U.S. Lawmakers do the right thing, by providing the Government-run (non profit) Insurance Plan, then the private insurers know that they would no longer be free to "fleece the flock", if I may borrow that religious phrase.

So we can only hope that the Congress and President will come to their collective senses and do the right thing. For once, give their constituents more than "lip service". As I said earlier, why would your State need an Option, especially an option to "opt-out"? Again, this is just a smoke screen to hide their "bought and paid for" obligation to the Insurance Giants, who have bankrolled the Politicians' elections. And now they are simply calling in their bets.