I just want to pick him up, put him in my pocket, and take him to family reunions to fight my battles with (for) me.
Robert Bernard Reich is an American politician, academic, writer, and political commentator. He served as the twenty-second United States Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1997.
A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Reich is a former Harvard University professor and the former Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is currently Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Reich also serves on the board of directors of Tutor.com, and is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.
Reich is an occasional political commentator on programs including Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CNBC’s Kudlow & Company, and Marketplace. In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the Ten Most Successful Cabinet Members of the century, and The Wall Street Journal placed him among America’s Top Ten Business Thinkers. On November 7, 2008, he was selected by President-elect Barack Obama to be a member of the President-elect’s economic transition advisory board.
I add this little resume so that you can see that Robert Reich is a shitload smarter and more knowledgable than your Republican brother in law.
Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Public Option. Yadda yadda yadda. What he doesn’t mention is that the government incentivizes your employer to drop Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C, leaving you with no option other than the Public Option.
Look, it’s pretty much out in the open now that this is simply the foot in the door to single payer. It isn’t just crazy right winger brothers-in-law, it’s supporters of this reform acknowledging it.
Cameron:
You’re wrong, if your employer drops your insurance you will get dropped into the insurance exchange where you have the choice of hundreds of difference insurance options or the public option. At no time are you force into the public option, At no time are you stopped from buying private insurance.