PUBLISHED: Dropping 'public option' exposes the scam

Link to published letter [8/21/09]

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This liberal is glad President Barack Obama may drop the public option for health coverage "reform".

A public option would ultimately fail anyway, as it became a dumping ground for private insurers to ditch their higher-cost patients.

Obama's move exposes current attempts to provide universal coverage for the sham -- and scam -- that they are: a trillion dollar funnel of our tax dollars to expand the scope and profits of today's wasteful, inefficient, bureaucratic and capricious private insurers.

On health coverage, the federal government has a proven track record of being (literally) 10 times more efficient and easier for physicians to deal with than the private sector. Single payer is the only meaningful reform that won't bankrupt the country.