Conservatives and "The Opt-Out Trap"

narcosphere.narconews.com — Let’s imagine that Congress finally approves a health care bill and that it has a public option but also with the “opt out” provision for states. Americans throughout the land will feel a great wave of relief and hope for improvement of their own families’ daily lives. Any state legislature and governor that then decides to “opt out” — thus denying their own citizens the option to sign up for national government sponsored health insurance — will then have provoked a lasting political storm upon themselves. It will become very personal, as people realize that Governor Smith or State Senator Jones directly denied their children what other Americans have won.

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