This is a good thing. Apparently extensive lobbying has not destroyed the voice of the people.. Unless you receive daily threats by email from the Republican Party leadership, if you live in this country, between 70% and 80% of you are for the public option to be included.

The plan is a compromise along the lines of that Connecticut Compromise which established two houses of legislature: one dedicated to population…, the other giving every state an equal voice.

This option will give a public option, but allow some states to opt out.

That may seem counterproductive to some… For limiting the size of the pool of payees drives up the costs… Expanding the pool drives costs down…

But, if a state such as Senator Selby’s Alabama opts out, they will suddenly see their economy fail as firms leave to other states that do offer the public option.. Who would want to transfer to Alabama? No one… You couldn’t pay an employee enough to move there.

So over time, all states will chose to opt in.. It’s common sense, sort of like choosing to eat a peanut butter sandwich instead of pointing a loaded 357 magnum at your head and pulling the trigger.

So this option, even with the opt-out clause, will eventually give us all 50 states with the ability to serve their citizens the public option if those citizens wish to subscribe…

Common sense says they will. After all, if 55 Republicans vehemently bawling against the public option for regular citizens, use public health care for themselves… (Medicare and Medicaid, both which work well, are forms of the public option), then it must be good for the rest of America.

The private option will still be available… There will be no change in anyone’s insurance which they currently have, except perhaps that their rates might go down.

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