The Public Option

Senator:

Your integrity is admired, as well as the sense of
urgency displayed, at least as regards this very
important portion of the bill. WHEN, assuming
your colleagues on the left have their way,
the government BEGINS running the government-sponsored
option, it will have little choice but to, once again,
disrupt the free market by setting its own prices, ostensibly
relative to prevailing market prices. After which it shall
ignore the market. Sir, some of my friends, Freemasons
and High Thinkers, are certain that over twenty years
they will have enough concerned citizens as witnesses.
If, over the next few administrations after the incipience
of a government sponsored option there is a palpable decrease
in the quality of care as well as the options for its provision
(as a function of business unable to compete with government
prices in any truly realistic or meaningful sense), please sir
have it on record that these gentlemen have no qualms about
attributing the failure of commonsense to a black man, and thus
the black man and those who voted him in, to appease some latent
sense of racial justice, over the power of principle which stands
for all people. I, for one, realize that there WILL
always have been a black president at some point. I would have
hoped, however, that he displayed more maturity than our current
leader, whose behavior is increasingly erratic, a penchant for
"game-changing" surprises that surprise no one on my team, but
instead, as we see with the KSM decision, bolsters my credibility
"as concerns" much of what concerned me about Obama DURING the
campaign. We are treading, sir, on very delicate ground,
and that the US Senate is unable to debate this... trivial
matter in a logical manner so that the truth wins out is
a red flag. It seems the MO of this administration is to
create truth, not observe it. I stand in awe at the future,
being perhaps the only "brother" in the "struggle" who
openly decries the behavior and philosophy of the black man
who is currently privileged to represent our shared interests.
On the one hand, I am concerned for his success BECAUSE I am
black. But the balance on the other hand calls for a more
principled stand. Wouldn't it be nice, Senator, if your
staffers were able to come up with a logically hashed out
argument detailing, in obvious sequence, the very few possibilities
that might be the outcome of ignoring market prices, having
INITIALLY used those to set a pricing threshold.