R.E.M., MoveOn and Paul Krugman Want a Public Option Now

R.E.M. and MoveOn have teamed up to make a moving video where people from across the country have sent in photos explaining why a public option should not be delayed.



Paul Krugman also chimes in on the importance of a public option in any health care reform package in today's New York Times:\

Let me add a sort of larger point: aside from the essentially circular political arguments — centrist Democrats insisting that the public option must be dropped to get the votes of centrist Democrats — the argument against the public option boils down to the fact that it’s bad because it is, horrors, a government program. And sooner or later Democrats have to take a stand against Reaganism — against the presumption that if the government does it, it’s bad.