Dear Maine
I am sorry that your other Senator is also an idiot.
In an Associated Press interview in Portland, Snowe said it would be unfair to include a government-run health insurance option that would take effect immediately.
“If you establish a public option at the forefront that goes head-to-head and competes with the private health insurance market … the public option will have significant price advantages,” she said.
My friend Chris, who i don’t believe is from Maine, adds:
Well, duh. That is the whole point. You can’t lower the price of health insurance unless you start offering lower-priced health insurance. It’s a tautology.
So, naturally, during the fight to lower the price of health insurance, so-called moderate Senators think that the problem with the public option is that it would… lower the price of health insurance. While it may be news to so-called moderate Senators, protecting the crappy products of large corporations is not their job description.
Having visited your wonderful state on numerous occasions, I know that many of you are actually very smart, resourceful people. It must be difficult to be represented by two horse posteriors. I sympathize: in my state, one Democrat is a pro-life, pro-death penalty schmuck who thinks people should carry loaded concealed weapons in national parks, while the other Democrat is actually a Republican so loathed he can’t even win his own primary.
But I digress. Snowe’s giving you a bad name. Please dispose of her at your earliest convenience.
love,
brendan
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