The House health care is looking more and more plutocratically compromised the more I hear about it.

I keep reading that the public insurance option in it is only really available to around 6 million people - the rest don't qualify, including more than a hundred million people currently uninsured. So the public option isn't any kind of option for most people. It's a public option in name only (hereafter: "POINO").

That being the case, it is almost as bad as the personal mandate to purchase insurance without a PO of any kind, as I've said before. It's one thing to subsidize insurance industry profits by spending tax dollars through Medicaid; it's another to force people to do it themselves. That's disgraceful. It's equivalent to raising taxes on the poor and middle classes, something President Obama has most clearly promised against. But if the "tax" is levied by insurance companies, and not government, he can get away with it on a semantic technicality.

Now, with that said, this particular bill might be better for me specifically, because I'm likely to be one of the few who can qualify both for the public insurance option and the expanded Medicaid subsidies. I won't know until I can see what's on offer.