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Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich views what is occurring to him like he is a fish in a fishbowl. In his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday today (8-22-10), he makes rational and intelligent folks puke—and this is being said from someone who is not even a Republican! Our legal system needs to ferret out such scum, though we know that if history is any guide, long after we are all gone, such corruption will not disappear. It is our hope, though, that with today’s (legal) efforts, the likelihood that there will be more of the Blagojevichs of the world will diminish greatly.

The only reason a public option now remains a stranger to health care reform is that Speaker Pelosi does not trust the Senate to do the right thing and pass what the House puts in any “sidecar” bill it is now crafting. This is regardless of the fact that 41 senators have pledged support for the public option and the Senate Majority Whip, Dick Durbin (D.-Ill) has said he will “whip” anything that comes over from the House. Isn’t it time that elected officials stop screwing around with our health and start trusting one another so that the public option is passed into law?

From the day long healthcare summit that took lace on February 25 at the Blair House, it was clear that Congressional leaders all want choice and competition. The simplest and clearest way to achieve this is through the public option.

With Obama having set a (televised) conference that brings all interested Congressional Members to the table on February 25, it is time that voters are presented the issues in readable and understandable English. This post does just that, and references a blog site where a fresh look at what needs to get done is presented. It is do or die time on health care reform. But first, just what is health care and how should it be viewed going forward?

It is high time that President Obama get mad as hell and not take what his Democratic colleagues in the Senate are dishing out at him. He has to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. After all, change that he wants with health care reform is the grease underneath his fingernails.

Putting 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan without first knowing how to pay for them, yet requiring any health care reform to be budget neutral, seems to set up a double standard. Why? This blogs explores this topic and determines one at first blush appears more worthy than the other.

An alternative exists to a so-called public option while achieving the same goal. Just change the means to get there.

With the Senate debate on health care reform set to commence after Thanksgiving, the most contentious issue will be over whether or not there should be a public option. This post describes a way to achieve the same goal as a public option without having a public option.

With the introduction now of both a Senate and House bill, the public option has become a focal point. But what goes unnoticed in the debate, at least so far, is that only anywhere from 5-31 million Americans will be eligible for this program. At a minimum, 80 million citizens should become eligible from the start. This post explains why.

In a reent poll conducted by the office of the Senate majority Whip, 80% or respondents who were surveyed want a strong and robust public option. The more who are eligible for it the less health care reform will cost taxpayers. The public option, though, must be available for at least 80 million Americans if there is to be adequate competition in the marketplace that then produces true choice.