Ok, Republicans. We give up!!!

[Doktor Howl]

You'd think so. 

The fear seems to be that, if the gvt plan is too cheap, employers will stop offering healthcare, and people will naturally choose the cheap gvt plan, putting the more expensive insurance companies out of business, and creating a gvt monopoly of health care.

Of course, these are the same people who claim that the gvt is too ineffecient to run anything correctly or cheaply, so there's a bit of disconnect there.

Schroedinger's Bureaucrat.