Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door?

Would someone who's not an official pariah at "public option" fanblogs see if you can get good answers to these questions?

Posted at Open Left, where our opinion-leaders on health-care "reform" surely have ready answers.

Four questions

1. Do you expect that this "public option" will be "strong" and "robust"?

2. How many people do you expect will have access to it?

3. Will it substantially "help keep insurance companies honest"?

4. Will it bring America anywhere in line with other countries on health-care costs?

I posted a version at Democratic Underground with two additional questions (which I'd left out of the Open Left version, in order to lessen the distraction of personal defensiveness):

The questions "public option" supporters won't answer:

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5. Why didn't you complain about Obama and company's lies about conducting an open-and-transparent process that considered all options?

6. How did the wafty public option plan become the only plan that leading progressives would dignify? Which is it: are the big bloggers and activists playing too much footsie with Beltway insiders... or have they simply become Beltway insiders themselves?