I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself

Holman Jenkins: Why Obama Bombed on Health Care - WSJ.com: "The public is not as dumb as it's made out to be, and Mr. Obama's public option died a bipartisan death yesterday in the Senate Finance Committee. What's left is a package of 'reforms' that are mere trite extensions of what we've been doing for decades. That is, piling up mandates on private insurers and then lying that this somehow isn't driving up the cost of health insurance; piling up subsidies for health consumption and then lying that this somehow isn't responsible for runaway health-care spending."

Well said. Of course, I won't consider the public option dead until co-ops are also off the table.