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All the president's zombies

Posted: August 25, 2009 at 3:44 a.m.

The debate over the "public option" in health care has been dismaying in many ways. Perhaps the most depressing aspect for progressives, however, has been the extent to which opponents of greater choice in health care have gained traction-in Congress, if not with the broader public-simply by repeating, over and over again, that the public option would be, horrors, a government program.

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Editorial, Pages 12 on 08/25/2009

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