It isn’t only the words by which the Republicans fight health care reform in Washington. And it isn’t only the Republicans. In case you missed the Obama Press Conference, take a look at this post by The Liberal Curmudgeon.

(Video via The Liberal Curmudgeon and SEIU)

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Obama made points well worth considering about fears that a public, government-run health plan would harm private insurance:

Obama: Now, the public plan, I think, is an important tool to discipline insurance companies. What we’ve said is, under our proposal, let’s have a system, the same way that federal employees do, same way that members of Congress do, where we call it an exchange, but you can call it a marketplace, where, essentially, you’ve got a whole bunch of different plans… As one of those options, for us to be able to say, here’s a public option that’s not profit-driven, that can keep down administrative costs, and that provides you good, quality care for a reasonable price as one of the options for you to choose, I think that makes sense.

See the rest of the post here: Obama’s Logical Question: If Private Health Insurance is the Best, Why is a Public Plan a Threat?