Yeah, too bad Connecticut only accounts for, like, 0.0115% of the total US population.  If Connecticut wants a public option, then its legislature should enact one and leave the rest of us out of it.  Fact is that even with both houses of Congress passing this thing, public support for it is fading fast.  If this plan such a great idea, then why has Congress chosen to exempt itself and the labor unions (one of the Democrats' biggest financial supporters) from its mandates?  And if this legislation is so deperately needed, why is most of it not being implemented until after 2013?

I'm not sure how you can say that you haven't heard of a plan from the Republicans, unless you've been living in a cave for most of 2009, or else you've been getting your news from the lame-stream media.  As I pointed out to Mr. Franco in a prior post:

As far as GOP alternatives, there have been at least five Republican-backed proposals and one bi-partisan Senate proposal.  The first was the Patient's Choice Act, and was sponsored by four GOP senators this past May.  It would have essentially shifted $300 billion in annual tax subsidies from employer-based plans to individuals in the form of tax credits to buy insurance or invest in Health Savings Accounts.  In fact, the Congressional Budget Office back in November released a cost analysis of the latest GOP proposal and concluded that it would, in fact, reduce premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over the next ten years.

The GOP can say no all they want, but it's still pretty hard to make the case that they've been able to obstruct anything when the Democrats are the ones with the majority and a president who is willing to sign just about anything.

Regards,
Scott Perry