With the passing of one of the greatest proponents of health care reform, I can only hope that Ted Kennedy's dream of an America that provides quality health insurance to all doesn't die with him.

I'm still trying to get my head around why the term " public option" makes people lose their sh%t. It's as if a good part of the country has been hypnotized to immediately form into an angry, irrational mob as soon as they hear the term. The public option, is just that, an option. It serves as a means to introduce competition in the health care industry that will eventually result in more affordable health care for all individuals. The concept is not a public mandate.It never will be. This country is far too set in it's ways for universal health care to ever take hold.

If you're not losing your health care, then what are you fighting for? I'll tell you actually; you're fighting to keep the underinsured, sick and uninsured from getting the health care that they deserve. Health care reform is not socialism. In fact, if we're talking about controlled health insurance, what do you think the HMO's are doing? They're jacking up their prices, denying valuable claims, refusing to insure people with a pre-existing condition and regulating prescription drug prices.

That's controlled health care if you ask me.

I'm exhausted from the ignorance of so many Americans. I'm disgusted by the bullsh%t that the HMO's and their ( mainly Republican) cronies have forced down your throat.

For the love of God, I can only hope that you don't swallow it. Your HMO might not cover that.