The Case for a Public Plan

prospect.org — Until now, the Left has largely used the public plan as a way to sell the Obama/Clinton/Edwards health care plans to itself. In this telling, the public plan is a Trojan horse for single-payer health care. When socialism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the rhetoric of competition. That may prove to be true and it may not. But it's not going to fly in the Senate. Blue dogs don't vote for socialism (except, as we saw in the case of TARP, when they do).