From “government Option” To “public Option”

More language games to make a policy sound more palatable. From

Hugh Hewitt:

The Obama/Pelosi/Reid push to take over and nationalize health insurance via the so-called “government option” has received a face-lift this week, with many advocates of the takeover now calling it the “public option,” which sounds less intrusive. No matter what you call it, the “government/public option” will destroy private sector insurance very soon after it passes and will push tens of millions of employed and covered Americans from the insurance plans they currently own (and generally like) into the sprawling, top-down, rationing-on-the-sly plan that is just Medicare on steroids, a “public option” that will be just as broke and just as oppressive when it comes to intensive treatment of difficult diseases and conditions as medicare is.

At any rate, the president laid out elements of his health care plan to the American Medical Association, which applauded the parts that were favorable to doctors and remained silent or even booed the parts that were not. See this report.