Healthcare

Apparently there's a flirtation with giving individual states the right to opt out of a public-option program:

But instead of starting with no national public option and giving state governments the right to develop their own, the newest compromise approaches the issue from the opposite direction: beginning with a national public option and giving state governments the right not to have one.

I don't know. The first thing that springs to mind is millions of people will be subjected to the whims of state politicians with stars in their eyes. As in Bobby Jindal decided that trying to reject stimulus money that would greatly benefit millions of people in his own state would make him look good to the Republican base ACROSS THE COUNTRY in case he decides to run for president one day, his actual constituents be damned. Is this really what we wanna do with healthcare?