Witty and trughful he is. I've been pondering his final statement as well: A voluntary early buy-in to Medicare.

Some tricks to that, probably some we don't see - but it certainly clarifies the public option discussion.

The thing is, though - if we allow private insurers to just throw the high-expense population into medicare by "choice," then they win again, and taxpayers continue to pay and then pay again.

But if we do most of the main private insurance proposed rules - no denials on pre-existing, etc., we ought to be able to make the "option" fair and funded and competitive.