A good compromise leaves everyone happy, a bad one; everyone mad

Well, thanks a ton, Lieberman and Friends. You've done a fine job taking away health insurance for millions of Americans AND giving the insurance companies some extra customers in the process. It's bad enough that we have Americans without insurance, but to make them criminals for not making enough money and forcing them to starve themselves so that they don't get sent to prison is insane. Your state opts out of the public option and you can't afford health insurance? Congratulations! You'll get to pay an addition 2.5% of your income in taxes! Now, if we had something sensible, such as SINGLE-PAYER, this would make sense. But, under the current law, if your state opts out on the public option, and you're too poor for insurance, you just got a a tax hike. Not to mention that you would effectively have to pay for a public option which you might not be able to afford, but that would probably be more affordable than private health insurance. So, Joe Lieberman, if you won't vote for anything with government-run health insurance, why do you allow YOURSELF to get government-run health insurance? Why not put your money where your mouth is any pay for private health insurance, considering the government is as scary as you portray it to be? Or maybe, you just want money from the insurance companies, considering you get more money from them than 75% of Senators. Corporations run the government by bribing lawmakers to get laws passed. I feel so much safer knowing we are effectively run by an unelected plutocracy. Which is, thanks to our unmeritocratic system of "success" in life, effectively inherited. Almost like a monarchy. The very thing our country revolted against...