I've just gone along with the flow of people liking Kathleen Sebelius.  I can't say I was impressed with her endorsement of Obama.  But on the whole, I thought she was OK.

This story, however has me reeling back more than a little. Her son is selling an extremely tasteless board game called "Don't Drop the Soap" out of the Governor's Mansion (which I didn't think was even legal).

Health Care is THE critical issue for me.  I believe in Health Care for Everyone and I've judged all candidates since 1992 on that issue.  I wasn't happy with Hillary last year when she implied that it wasn't a priority for her -- that it would be sometime in her second term before she could promise universal access.  It was Edward's health care plan with its public option (giving us the choice of bypassing private insurance companies) that drew me to him.  Now that he's out of the race, I've got to figure out if either of the two remaining candidates have anything comparable.

I don't particularly like the way Obama has attacked the concept of "mandates" in Hillary's plan.  But I didn't immediately dismiss it either.  Because -- affordable or not -- the idea of a law requiring us to buy private health insurance is deeply repugnant to me: it's just another government give-away to corporations.  So I went to Hillary's site to read her plan for myself.

I was pleasantly surprised. We've heard her say that she'd give us all the option to buy into the Federal plan.  But did you know that Hillary has added an idea similar to the Edwards Plan -- that she's now proposing a public option (similar to Medicare)?

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