Don't Be Scared of the Public Option

There are two extremely easy to understand videos on the public option. They're easy to understand because the public option is not the complicated, "scary" "government takeover" of healthcare some would have you to believe. Even the name, public option, gives it away - it's simply a new choice among the others already available.

Here's Robert Reich explaining it in less than 3 minutes:

Here's the other one, by Chris Hayes of the Nation magazine: