The Only Option That Makes Sense

Recently, both the House of Representatives and the Senate released details of their health care reform plans, and thankfully they have included, among other things, a government-run health care option. And you know what that means: It’s time for some Republican fearmongering!

It’s socialized medicine! A bureaucrat will be in charge of your healthcare! Higher taxes! Lions! Tigers! Bears! House Minority Leader and spray tan enthusiast John Boehner even went so far as to claim that the new plan will ruin the best health care in the world. Really? The best health care in the world? On what grounds could the opponents of health care base this claim?

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