Mandate with a public option, please

By Creature

Senate Majority Leader Olympia Snowe:

“The obligation should be first and foremost on the United States government to ensure that these plans will be affordable in the marketplace,” Ms. Snowe said. “It surprises me that we would have these high-level penalties on the average American when we have no certainty about whether or not these plans will be affordable. I just don’t understand why there’s this impetus to punish people.

Snowe wants certainty on affordability, yet voted against a public option that would surely guarantee exactly that. Head meet wall. Repeat.