Boehner: public option stinks
So, does anybody out there in the real world support a government-run “public” health insurance option?
House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner doesn’t think so.
He told reporters on Thursday: “I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who is in favor of the public option other than a member of Congress or the administration.”
Democrats suggested the Ohio congressman is not getting out enough, but Boehner thought otherwise. “I get to a lot of places,” he said.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll found 57 percent of people in his native Ohio supported giving people the option of a government-run insurance plan, but Boehner said the idea was “about as unpopular as a garlic milkshake.”
Pressed by a reporter, Boehner admitted he had never tried a garlic milkshake — drawing the ire of California garlic growers.
The San Francisco Chronicle said Brian Bowe, executive director of the Gilroy Garlic Festival and the go-to guy for all things garlic, invited Boehner to next year’s event.
I support the public option and so does my boyfriend, his parents, his sister and brother-in-law, my parents, my grandmother, my brothers, and my brother’s wives. So that’s 14 people I can name off the top of my head. And all of us have decent private insurance with no intention of taking direct advantage of the public option. We all support the public option because it is the best way reign in the for-profit insurance companies and decrease the high costs that result from treating the uninsured in the emergency room for ailments that could have been treated in a much more cost effective manner at an earlier time had they had insurance to seek treatment. Not to mention the moral concern that our current system allows people to die of treatable illnesses because they can’t afford care. PLEASE GIVE US A PUBLIC OPTION!!