If the Public Option is anything like what I experienced yesterday at the DMV (which I suspect), please call the insane asylum.Yesterday, I had to update my driver’s license. A pragmatic, streamliner like me figured that I would be in and out of the DMV in no more than twenty minutes. I would go in, update my address, give the camera a nice face to photograph (lol), and then return back to work. Well so much for dreaming.

When my publisher asked me to write an article for HHR on The Public Option, it was with the understanding that the article would be supportive of The Public Option since I, as a moderate Republican, support Universal Healthcare. After finding out, however, what the Public Option is, I cannot say that I do support it since, if my idea of Universal Healthcare were to be implemented there would be no need for Health Insurance at all.

If the government wants to cover even a fraction of the 45 million uninsured, it has two options: limit healthcare services and dictate which doctors each patient can use or spend a fortune on over-priced medicine and make it up in taxes.

And like the public university system, when the government, which will be responsible for setting the price of care (as it sets the price of education at public schools), limits its financial commitment the institution must respond by raising its price and/or cutting and rationing its services.

It seems that now I am truly opposed to the health reform that the Congress of the United States of America seems to be considering, what the democrats seem to be considering. I am going to present to you, my reader, some examples straight from the major health bill as to why this reform cannot occur in the way that this congress has written, and why it is more of a negative impact on this country than a positive one. First of all, for all of you who see a public option as “free health care,” lets get that phrase out of your mind. When money does not exist, then that phrase will be possible.