Jack, I agree with that.

However...there was a choice between a genuine public option and no public option. I'm sorry that they made the wrong choice when it came to that, and it's a great shame. Obama had enormous public support when elected, and he could have pushed for a public option and full universal heath care such as in Europe and gotten it, in my opinion. Instead, the administration gave in to fierce lobbying from the private health insurance industry and gave them mostly just what they wanted.

I'm still in favour of the bill being passed. It had to be. But I'm disappointed in how weak and compromised a bill it turned out to be.