There are hints that the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leadership might be willing to negotiate on the inclusion of a government health insurer as part of health-care reform.
If Americans want mandated health care coverage, it would be possible for individual states to provide it to them. But almost none of them do.
Health care reform should seek to encourage rather than discourage private innovation to provide incentives for healthy behavior.
The Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership appear poised to create a "competing" government health insurer as part of its health care reform.