August 13, 2009.  Conservatives are pretending people trust business and not the government so we should let big insurance companies completely control health care and not have one insurance plan sponsored by the government. That's what Obama proposes — one government plan so you can choose it if you want.

So let's check. You can mail your letter or package with the U.S. post office or with FedEx or UPS. Do you like having that choice? Here are the poll numbers for the post office and big business:

Now do the Republicans really pretend we trust big insurance companies more than the post office? Here's what Arthur Laffer (a very conservative economist) said on CNN, Tuesday, August 4, 2009:

Now read that again, because he's saying that the government is not running medicare and medicaid. But that's ridiculous. He's and economist right in the middle of the health care debate and doesn't know those are government programs? Of course he does.

Here's the scoop. Medicare and Medicaid are very popular government-run health care, but believe it or not, a lot of people don't know they are government programs. And the Republicans really don't want people to figure out that they already like government health care. So they are pretending these are not government programs. It's completely deceitful.

August 13, 2009.  Obama is proposing one government health insurance plan for those under 65 to go along with the private ones. But Medicare is actually single-payer, government-run health insurance for people over 65. According to the Harris poll it is tied for third place in popularity of government programs:

Medicaid has 71% support. The Republicans call a lot of things socialist, but socialism is when the government owns big business and industry. When the government owns the highways that's not socialism. The government owns and runs a lot of things: schools, the military, police, the court system, the post office. If that was socialism we would have been socialists since the country was founded. The Republicans are just defending big insurance companies by using the socialist smear to frighten people.