The Democrats haven’t been doing the best job of actually explaining why the public option is awesome as of late.  Luckily there are smart and simple ads like the one below featuring Heather Graham from MoveOn.org.  In the video it becomes clear that the reason the public option is good is that it will force the greedy and lazy insurance companies to shape up and be more efficient at their jobs.

Which is clearly what we need. Give a watch and go to the act section of this post to learn what you can do to get the public option back in the race.