Why is Wal-Mart supporting Obama’s 'Public Option’ ?

Many of us have been supporting the option for people to buy into a public health-care plan as the best option we're likely to get in the current debate over health care reform.

Dave Lindorff suggests this isn't a realistic compromise:

(T)he plan being promoted by President Obama and by the Democrats in Congress is not real or progressive. It is a plan that will further enrich the health care industry, that will not stop the continuing rise in health care costs, that will still leave millions of people without access to quality medical care, and that will end up costing taxpayers more than they are already paying.

The proof is the support for this plan being offered by the likes of Wal-Mart and the big medical industry players.

You can read the entire post at CommonDreams.org.