wow. an "opt-out" ''public option'' for the STATES. what a deal. especially for the red ones. like here in texas.
but, even if guv'ner dumbhair knew how to pull the opt-out lever, it would still take both hands. so we have a 50-50 chance he won't be able to figure it out.
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what REALLY makes this whole thing four kinds of stupid is that harry isn't going to give us a real public option anyway.
and, the way they are going to do it, it can't get any worse:
1. if they call it a ''public option'' --but it's really not--then we can't say we didn't get one. even when it's true. you got that? this is called alpha error.
2. and if they call it a ''public option'' because it will give public dollars to a health insurance company...on our behalf, no less...then we're covered ''publicly'' alright, but telling us we're not actually screwing ourselves is an outright lie because we are, which is hard to do but there you go. this is called beta error. sorta. let's discuss the finer points of these difficulties.
alpha error is a ''false positive'' -- like getting the news that you ARE pregnant when you're NOT.
beta error is a ''false negative'' ...getting the news that you're NOT when you ARE.
are you following this? dudn' matter. my point here is that you get screwed either way.
and speaking of...if you weren't here in texas before the turn of the last century, you missed a bad-to-awful governor's race which went all the way to worst for good-ol-boy claytie williams when, sitting around a political campfire with a lot of other good-ol-boys, he said it was ''common'' wisdom that if you're going to be raped, you should lay back and relax--enjoy it if you can. it'll hurt less. unbelievably offensive and stupid. ann richards managed to win that contest, but, mostly, claytie did himself in.
but i digress.
the public option--no matter what we get--won't be a public health insurance option because it won't be a program like medicare. which is what john & joan q. duck really want in the first place. and that's nothing but a 'false positive'...a little alpha error, dear--which, 'turns out, is 'make nice' for a lie.
even 'though we don't even know what kind of 'public' option it will turn out to be, you can almost guarandamntee that it will NOT be what the majority of the mer'can public was sold on, which was ''single payer"... sorta like medicare.
in fact, exactly like medicare. but we're not getting that one.
regardless of the "public option" harry reid offers up--tacitly assuring us we're NOT getting screwed-- we ARE. in fact, we are at the mercy of reid and the health care pac that has made him their #1 recipient.
more likely, harry thinks we should just relax.
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