I don't know why Congress is examining in such detail any private plan in what is supposed to be an effort by Congress to cause a delinquent healthcare system to be reformed, but I suspect that once Congress employs a private plan (to be the goody-two-shoes in a demonstration of how morally bereft Congress's own public plan is, in comparison), it pretty much doesn't matter how much promise anyone else believes the public plan had.

It's as though Congress, being the parent of a minor who is accused of a crime, has hired for the trial an expert who comes equipped with his own (good) children. What the hell is that? The public has its own good children; that's how the public recognizes a bad one. More importantly, why does Congress think the public supported the idea of this trial--or the idea of a system of justice, in the first place?