Health Reform Debate-- more agreement than you'd think.

Here is a great interview by Terry Gross of Fresh Air of Paul Krugman of Princeton and Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, on health reform. They agree on most things, such as whether employer health benefits above a threshold should be taxed, whether individuals should be forced to get health insurance, and whether health plans should be regulated so that they must give decent benefits and take all comers.
The one area on which they totally disagree is whether there should be a "public option" offered along side all the competing health plans.
I've already concluded that the public option would add to the long-term drag on true reform of the delivery system that is already caused by Medicare. But, I thought that the two of them made the best case possible for each side, so you should listen. We all need to understand what's at stake with health reform.