Opt-outs (CANSPAM-compliant)

I'm a fan of Sunstein & Thaler's theory of behavioral economics. Opting out on the state level, as applied to the public option health care debate:

But what’s encouraging [is] how the debate seems to have shifted from whether or not a public plan will be included, to what the public plan will actually look like. Perhaps it’s just because the “public plan” under discussion has transformed from its original, Jacob Hacker-designed incarnation to the host of watered-down compromises that are now on the table. But the fact that we’ve moved from discussing the viability of having a bill at all to trying to hammer out the details is a promising sign overall.

Interesting. I thought the public option was dead at this point. Apparently not.

I'm not fully convinced either way, but I will tell you that the more I hear, read, and learn about it, the more I think that a public option is a remarkably good thing to have.

But, hate it or love it, the public option is still a-kickin'.