Posted by Redmond
Former Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist surprisingly announced his support for the public option and threw the fringe under the bus in the process:
"Clearly, the death panels and public plan arguments have been overblown," he says. Frist noted that Republicans themselves voted for a Medicare prescription drug bill that would have established a version of a public plan--with the government negotiating directly with drug companies--if private-sector competition had failed to materialize. That is similar to the approach that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe is taking with her amendment to establish a public option with a "trigger."
Granted, Bill Frist is hawking a new book on health care and simply assessed American's support for the public option (Attn: John Boehner). I'm sure if he were still in the senate, he'd demand a provision that nobody pulls the plug on a family member without him using his Jesus powers to determine if they're truly brain dead, or just faking it. Which makes me wonder why he hasn't given Sarah Palin's family the green light yet. Ba doom sha!