Yes, my friend…

But then you’re talking about the same population that urges their representatives to ‘keep the government’s hands off my medicare!’ (?) and equates ‘socialism’ with ‘communism’ as a cold war state of mind relic.

Being against government provided health care on the grounds that it’s socialist or holding that the private sector can do anything better than the government is like preferring private as opposed to public: armies, roads, bridges, damns, sewers, etc.

If the people pushing a public option (much like the rest of the civilized world benefits from—and I’m buying my prescriptions from Canada currently because I prefer paying $36 for 100 pills instead of $100 for 30 pills) than I agree—we need more of it.

Let’s hear it for the socialists! (What say we greet them as liberators?)