We never thought we’d write the words “Michael Moore is right”, but the filmmaker is dead on when he echoes Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman about the true intention of President Barack Obama’s public option. Moore tells Rolling Stone in the latest issue:
If a true public option is enacted — and Obama knows this — it will eventually bring about a single payer system, because the profit-making insurance companies won’t be able to compete with a government run plan and make the profits they want to make.
