The public plan option, in the Senate at least, is beginning to remind us of one of those really really convoluted word problems back in sixth grade math. If there are 60 Democratic senators, and 50-something (maybe) back the public plan and none really want to kill health care reform but 15 want to make the playing field more level and four want to leave it to the states, and two are named Nelson and twenty are up for re-election and 9 come from red states... and one is named Reid how man