Great Factoid

Here's a good one to use when they tell you that a public plan will destroy the private insurance market:

[Ms. Sebelius] said Mr. Obama did not support “dismantling the private market” and relying entirely on a public program. Indeed, she said, “the president and I want to stabilize the private insurance market.”

In more than two dozen states, she said, state employees have a choice between traditional private health insurance products and a public plan. Such competition does not destroy the marketplace but simply gives people an additional choice, she said.

And then throw in the many examples of private and public options existing side by side: FedEx and USPS, public schools and private schools, etc.