I can certainly understand why the insurers, drug companies, doctors, and other medical providers would oppose a public option; it threatens to reduce their ability to set their own prices. But as a health insurance customer, my sympathy is limited.

In fact, I'd go so far to say that, in my experience, if there is one entity that's more frustrating to deal with than the IRS, it's the insurance company that, as a matter of policy, seeks to defraud its own customers by systematically denying legitimate claims. If the government can cut through this and help get my company out of the social services business, I say bring it on.