You Are Wrong, Senator Carper

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Carper: Well, at the end of the day, I want us to pass a bill. I want us to pass a good bill … At the end of the day, there are more important things in the bill than whether or not we have a public plan or a public option. I think the idea of what we did in the Medicare Part D plan, where we have a fallback plan on the shelf, ready to pull out if we need it, in order to make sure market forces are working, that seems to me to be a perfectly good option.

Healthcare reform without an immediate public option for every person in the nation on day one is unacceptable. No plan which excludes a public option is the real reform we need to change our current system from disease care to health care. If you really believe different, Senator, then you are listening far too much to the industry lobbyists and not enough to your constituents.

Peace.