Proving that the public plan ISN'T about competition

Emanuel faces liberal pressure over 'trigger' comments (CNN)

"Emanuel's apparent suggestion in a Wall Street Journal article published Tuesday that the White House would be willing to consider a "trigger" clause on a public option — to delay full implementation of the plan if insurance companies met certain conditions on coverage and cost — drew outrage from liberal members of Congress and MoveOn.org, which has poured millions of dollars into a campaign supporting the president's health care proposal."

Ironic since the point of this is to improve health care availability and affordability. SO if guidelines are set for private industry to improve health care affordability and they meet them..... WHAT IS THE NEED FOR THE PUBLIC SYSTEM????

Frankly I think the "trigger" plan sucks too because it is still using bureaucracy to over regulate and essentially decrease the quality of health care for most in order to provide it for a small segment of the population, of which many didn't want it to begin with, or just weren't responsible enough to do what it takes to get it to begin with. If you have a choice for health care vs. cable TV, booze, and cigarettes, and other stuff you might not need.... and you choose the latter, then quite frankly I think you should pay the price and be a recipient of poor health care. And it will be poor health care, not an absence of health care as the widespread public misconception suggests.