What's in a name?

There is much debate in today’s reporting that the Obama Administration is backing away from its support of the “Public Option” for health insurance.

Do not believe this public relations stunt. Listen to what has been said:

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  There is no reform without a public health insurance plan. Handing the private insurance companies 50 million more lives to cover and giving them a monopoly over health insurance coverage for working people is not reform.
  Healthcare for America Now! (HCAN)
  
• The only health care reform worth doing is the public option. If you give away the public option you have no health care reform.
  Howard Dean
  
• We do not see real, systemic change in the health-care system if there is not a robust public option…The public option is going to happen.
  Nancy Pelosi
  
• Any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, cost and track records of a variety of plans – including a public option…
  Barack Obama

The Obama Administration is committed to moving the USA to a single payer health care system. The first step on this path is to institute a “Public Option”. Faced with vocal opposition to the “Public Option” plan the administration will find a new route to get to the single payer system. The first step on this new route is now called an insurance co-op.

Do not be fooled by this rebranding. The insurance co-op will be a government controlled health insurance system. The co-ops will be able to price private insurance out of the market. Eventually only the government will pay for health care.

What's in a name? That which we call a “Public Option” by any other name would smell as foul.