So this compromise proposal is being floated ... to implement a national public option but allow the states to opt out either by legislative action or public referendum.

Personally, I like the proposal a lot. It looks likely to avoid the crippling that the various other public option proposals have suffered and it makes use of the federalist idea of the states as laboratories.

If the public option is as bad as the right seems to think, it will quickly disappear as more and more states opt out. If it works well, it will flourish as those states which originally opted out decide to opt in.

I guess Calif is OK then. Schwarzenegger is for public option.

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I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and
all the less important ones just never go away.
And the real pains in the ass are permanent.

If the public option is as bad as the right seems to think, it will quickly disappear as more and more states opt out. If it works well, it will flourish as those states which originally opted out decide to opt in.

  Sometimes I think you really *are* this naieve.  So states sign up for a new federal piggy bank to play with, and if it doesn't work, they'll give it right back.  They all have *such* a fine track record of doing just that!

gus.

 

can states "opt out"

if they think the fed is rooking them?

can secession be considered in "opting out?"

can states "opt out"

if they think the fed is rooking them?

can secession be considered in "opting out?"

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I am beginning to hope so.  If you want to opt out of the Nation, I'll bid you fair adieu.

goodbye.

Jim..