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The private insurance industry's latest talking point against the only way of ensuring affordable health care coverage for everyone, a robust public health insurance choice, is to accuse the government of trying to be a "player and a referee in the same game."

It's telling that the private insurance lobbyists see the health care crisis as a 'game.' It's not a game. Just ask Rhonda Robinson of Durham, N.C. who lost her job last year and has epilepsy. Her Cobra payments are more than she brings in each month as a consultant, yet she earns too much to qualify for Medicaid. That is what's called being in the gap. Rhonda is just one of many heartbreaking stories in the health care reform debate.