Well, well, well isn't funny now that Matt "Nixon" Entenza is running for Governor that is wife Lois "Pat Nixon" Quam Entenza is now supporting a public option. She made MILLIONS working for an insurance company that is fighting tooth and nail against a public option. United (we fight) Health Care (reform) Group has long denied coverage to seniors, people with pre-existing conditions, and most recently a little girl who was to skinny. So Lois, me the oscar winning performance now that your husband is running for Governor. Take your act on the road to the local comedy clubs. You should give back the MILLIONS in back dated stock options rather than using this schtick in a veiled attempt to rehabilitate your husbands lying, investigating reputation.

Sen Al Franken is coming and Minnesota's small businesses need to listen.

Sen Franken at work!

These people are DFlers. Non-Supportive comments need to be removed!

I see the knuckle draggers are out early. Calling out the insurer's for what they are should be welcomed. But no surprise here.

Shock! Amazement! Lois Quam supports a public option and attacks her former emmployer United(we have always opposed,even when Quam worked for us)Health Care(reform)Group. What a hypocrite. Lois Quam was a highly paid executive at this insurance company until she quit because her employment there became a embarrsement and political liability for husband Matt who was running for Attorney General. I guess it still is. Quam recieved millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars in salary and back dated stock options providing her former employer with the vary stategies President Obama cites as a major reason for the need for a public option. Do you think UHG just started to deny people coverage after Quam left? Ms Quam, calling for a public option after all these years and after god knows how many people were denied health care coverage, again reeks of political opportunism and should be seen as the political stunt it is. However it is not to late to do the right thing. Shut down the think tank and the funding for husband Matts vanity run for Governor and give those poceeds, and whatever is left of the back dated stock option blood money to organizations providing free or low cost health care to those denied coverage by UHG under your watch and currently. Having you fighting for a public health care option would be like Matt upholding campaign finance laws or respecting an individuals privacy

Is it Matt who is running for governor with the blood money his wife made at UNH, of is it Louis who obviously flip flops on any topic that will advance her and her husbands political ambitions?

Lois, I hope the money you made at UNH is going to help fund the Public Option. Why is anyone listening to her? She left UNH, failed at Piper, and someone is still giving her a podium?

Lois Quam lived and worked in England early on in her career and studied the universal health care system there. While she may have made money working for a for-profit health care company, she always seems to have supported some sort of public option and is now free to speak more publicly about it. Yes, she benefited from working for an industry she is now criticizing. Yes, her husband is running for governor. However I don't believe that should negate every positive statement she makes on behalf of a public option.

Other news outlets covered this back in August. The PWC and Wellpoint premium analyses are valid - sorry, folks. No one can say with 100% certainty what will happen after reform passes, but those studies took the components of proposed reforms, made reasonable assumptions, and the outcome is premiums are going to rise (potentially significantly) for a large number of younger Americans. Lois has a fair marketplace when she was running Ovations and raking in $M each year. It is disingenuous for her to emerge as a voice for less competition in the marketplace, which is what a behemoth, Medicare-rate using "public option" would cause in short order, when she was a proponent of fair Medicare Advantage competition so recently.