Why We Need a Public Plan

(via VH1) MUST READ: TNR has a good article explaining why we need a public plan option in the health care reform bill ... and reminding Democrats why they don't need to compromise preemptively.

UPDATE: Yglesias points out how the idea that gov't run health care is inefficient passes for common knowledge even though it's patently wrong.

Compared with five other nations — Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom — the U.S. health care system ranks last or next-to-last on five dimensions of a high performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives.