DEVELOPING: Brunner's Fiery Demand For Public Option

In yet another sign of the escalating stakes in the health care debate for Democrats in 2010, Ohio Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner today wrote a full-throated defense of the public option on the Daily Kos.

Choice quotations:

"A public option relieves the already burdened system from providing care at no cost to those without coverage. A public option acts as a safety valve to keep costs of services steady and provide relief to those suffering without care."

"There is no benefit either for the American people or for the Democratic Party in surrendering the public option in return for the scarcely formed alternative of health care cooperatives...these health care cooperatives are unlikely to compete effectively any time soon with private insurers."

"We voted to put our Democratic leaders where they are today, and we must stand behind them, encouraging them to fight courageously for all Americans. When it comes to health care reform, a public option is not optional."

It only gets better. You can read Brunner's full piece here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/18/768670/-A-Public-Option-is-Not-O...

With such passion from one of Ohio's Democratic Senate candidates, we at Ohio Daily invite the Fisher campaign to respond.

The health care debate (and the success or failure of reform efforts) increasingly appears the central issue of the 2010 campaign, and Democratic primary voters deserve to know where our candidates stand on this most central of issues.