Frank Schaeffer: How the Right and the Left Destroyed the Public Option

Frank Schaeffer: How the Right and the Left Destroyed the Public Option: "If the 'public option' for health-care reform is off the table who's to blame? We all are -- left, right, moderate, progressive, we have glorified the notion of privacy, profit and individual space for so long that we wouldn't know a public option if one bit us in the ass.

A weird convergence of factors has resulted in United States of America being one of the only places on earth where all sense of a public space, let alone public duty, is off the table as a matter of faith. Privacy, ownership and profit are what we are about."