I confess I'm baffled by the GOP's near obsession, at least rhetorically, with "choice". In the context of the Congress' two health care bills they suggest that people want choice over benefits - for example the opportunity to choose between two (or more) terrible options rather than have to "accept" a fairly decent one.
For example, you may soon get to choose between three low premium health care plans, one with huge deductibles, another which precludes coverage for a wide variety of ailments, and a third which caps payouts at a low level.
Personally, I'd prefer one good plan over an array of bad ones.
Fundamentally nothing gets round the fact that until health care costs less, someone has to pay; whether that's the person who is sick (and may not be able to), other members of the plan who are less sick, or taxpayers, the money has to come from somewhere.
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