Vic, the public option is...an option. No one has to sign up for it, and the only way it will drive the private insurance companies out of business is if it does it better...if it doesn't, why would anyone choose it, and how could it drive the privates out of business?

Competition is a two way street...and no one is going to shove anything down your throat, no matter what the loudmouths are yelling on TV, the radio, and at the town halls...

Increasing options, increasing competition, driving up services and quality, while driving down prices...

Is there really any better way to define the "free market" and the "American Way"...?

Note: Yes, there are lots of other ways to define those things, but most are cynical and angry...the "real" and pure way to define it is just as I did, at least that's what I think.

Fish on...

Todd