The One About Worthless Versus Pointless.

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Well, it seems that health care reform is hurtling down the home stretch. And to the guarded delight of Progressives everywhere, it looks as if there will indeed be some kind of a public option.
The first problem is whether or not it will be what they call a “robust” public option. Most likely it won't be.

The second much larger problem is that the final bill will most likely have provisions that make the public option all but meaningless.

>Either the public option will lay dormant, unless a so called “trigger” is pulled, in which case basically unless certain conditions are met, and it is voted on successfully, the public option will not be enacted, since the trigger will most likely be easily maneuvered around and will not be automatic.

Or there will be a public option, but individual states will be able to “opt out” of offering it. Which means basically that it would be possible to have a public option in say Pennsylvania, but not one right next door in Maryland.

As for all the many reasons why the trigger is basically a pile of crap, click here to read “The Trigger Is A Lie” at The Huffington Post by Cenk Uygur.

And as for this opt-out bullshit, apparently I need to say it again, and louder.

WE ARE ONE NATION AND STATES RIGHTS IS MOSTLY BULLSHIT!

So what are we going to let states opt out of next?

How about the Federal minimum wage? Why not let states opt out of it and pay the wage slaves whatever in the hell they feel like? Let's bring back the dollar twenty five an hour wage.

What about the state of the highways? If a state doesn't like the Federal standard to which they are expected to keep the roads, let them opt out of it, and keep the roads in any damn condition they like.

Or how about Congress pulls it's head out of its ass, and its pecker out of the insurance industries pocket, and passes some kind of meaningful legislation? (Yeah, radical notion I know.) Legislation with a public option. That is in place from the start without any bullshit trigger. That no state has the ability to opt out of.

Failing that, I've got an even more radical idea, let's take note of everyone's vote, and any one of them who vote for this kind of crap, let's not only vote them out of their current office, but using the power of the Internet let's keep tabs on them to make sure they don't ever get elected to anything ever again.

Or, you know, we can all continue to be cynical and apathetic. I mean it seems to be working so well for us all so far.

Keep The Faith My Brothers And Sisters!

The following resources were used in the creation of this article:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/26-8

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-trigger-is-a-lie_b_334426.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/8/791025/-Only-a-Sucker-Takes-The-First-OfferNo-to-the-Opt-Out-Option

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