The Reality Check

Finally, the White House is starting to put together a semi-effective message campaign. Instead of being in defensive mode all the time, it's actually starting to tell us what's in the bill and what they are intending to do. The actual facts are yet to be confirmed, but at least they've started talking.

Yesterday, the White House began to explain that the Health Care Reform Bill would really be a Heath Insurance Bill and would offer a public option, a government run insurance company as an alternative option for health care consumers. The Obama Administration does not want to create universal health care, well at least not right now. They just want a health insurance option that would be accessible to the 40-50 million Americans who can't get regular health insurance.

President Obama was doing a town hall yesterday explaining this and he compared this to delivery services and how UPS and Fedex competes with a government run Postal Service. Then he explained how the US Postal Service is always the one with problems. Ooops. He just proved government run services aren't as good as private companies. It was a funny mistake, but I still see his point. Even inefficient health insurance is better than nothing at all when you're poor or have a pre-existing condition.

Although, David Axelrod, a Senior Advisor to the President spammed America yesterday with an explanation of the Health Insurance bill, I don't know that he mentioned a public option. Anyway, at least their talking now.