Joseph Trimboli makes some good points in his letter to the editor, "People entitled to health care," until he says anyone who opposes the public option is either being paid off by the insurance companies or enjoys killing their fellow Americans.
He cast his argument in the same league as Sarah Palin's death panels at that point. There is legitimate opposition to every issue, and the public option is no different.
You can want universal health care and still decry the public option as potentially inefficient, expensive or as an unnecessary expansion in government at the cost of our liberty.
Universal health care need not require a public option. You could just more strictly regulate the insurance companies we already have, as well as the doctors themselves, and get systems much like most of those in Western Europe, in which private companies still do the heavy lifting under the stern regulations of their national governments.
But to argue that anyone who otherwise disagrees with the public option wants to kill their fellow Americans is, well, pretty un-American.
Warren Rhea is a journalism senior.
