Glad I waited

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I've been intending for some time to write a post about why I support the so-called "public option" in health care reform, that is, a government-run insurance program that would be available to everyone, either directly or through their employers if the employer couldn't afford or was too small for private insurance coverage. But, this morning, the

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Not that I disagree with you, but I think an argument that can be made about that video is that the majority of the "essential services" they cover, besides the coast guard, are typically funded with state taxes.

Then, typically the naysayers will bring up the faults of Social Security, the money-losing nature of the postal service, and the faults of Medicare (though the logic is faulty) to argue against "socialized medicine."

It's a headachey thing for me, particularly since my mom's boyfriend is pretty conservative and is against government run medicine. That's the typical stuff he brings up.

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Those, at least, are legitimate arguments, rather than idjits ranting about "socialism" and "death panels