I prefer a government-run plan to compete with private insurers. I find GOP plans and private-insurance companies talk of reform to be a bit tepid. They both are like the kid who is only "sincere" because he got taken by the scruff of the neck down to the principal's office.

Where were these sincere reformers the last decade? No, the public is finally fed up and the dems have the power so now the GOP and insurance carriers are throwing (rather weak) plans out there in an attempt to appease everyone for however-many-more decades.

I don't think a government-run plan means doom and gloom and us turning into Soviet Russia or something. Such talk in irresponsible journalism. I've never bought such all-or-nothing logic concerning gun control, and I don't buy it now.