Al Franken states support for a public option.

[Eric J in MN]

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/26/franken-health-care/

At a meeting on health care he held in St. Paul, Franken said a public option could provide an important "check" on insurance companies by competing with them in a not-for-profit model.

"Boy, is health care rationed now," Franken said. "And it's rationed by big insurance companies that choose to say, 'Oh, you can't have it.'"

Franken lamented what he said has been a lot of misinformation about how a public option would work.

"People have been kind of misinformed about what this is too," Franken said. "They consider it government takeover of health, and we have to reassure them, if it's even possible, that that's not what it is. It's another option."

[dflprincess]

1. Oh goody.

Another Democrat who admits the private insurers are dishonest and can't be trusted but wants them to continue to be major players.

Did he mentioned whether or not he wants to protect them by forcing most of us to continue to buy insurance from them?