The “public option,” in the words of its own supporters:
When these people say you can keep your current health care, they are lying. You may keep it at first, but eventually everyone will be forced into the government plan. That’s not a side-effect. That’s the point.
(Via the Corner.)
UPDATE: There’s also Barney Frank:
I’ve been a co-sponsor of single payer for a very long time. . . If we get a good public option, it could lead to single-payer, and that’s the best way to reach single payer.
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