WellPoint and The Bayhs: Readers React

Editor's note: Eric Jackson's article, Evan Bayh: Hypocrisy on the Public Option, has generated spirited comments from readers of RealMoney and TheStreet.com. We have compiled a sampling below. You can post your comments directly to TheStreet.com Web site by becoming a member here.

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There's no hypocrisy unless he favored one thing for some people and another for others.

If Susan Bayh served on the board of a think-tank that favored capitalism and a strong defense, would you say that Evan's support of those principles represented a conflict of interest?

The REAL conflict of interest is those politicians who want to take from those of us who EARN MONEY and are HAPPY with our healthcare so it can be REDISTRIBUTED to voting blocs that do not pay for health insurance or healthcare right now.

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I thought I was an informed Hoosier. Now I am an educated one. Great post!

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Excellent article [...] It's about time someone called out Bayh on his hypocrisy.

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Interesting article on Evan and Susan Bayh. I am an Emmis shareholder and agree with many of your comments regarding her tenure as a director of EMMS. However, one minor problem with your story is that EMMS sold its corporate jet this spring.

Taken from [its] May 2009 10-k,"On December 1, 2008, Emmis exercised its early purchase option on its leased corporate jet. Emmis paid $10.2 million in cash, net of a refundable deposit of $4.2 million, to AVN Air, LLC, the lessor of the aircraft."

Emmis sold the corporate jet on April 14, 2009 for $9.1 million in cash."

Otherwise agree with you on your article.

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The basic fallacy of your article is the assumption that Evan Bayh's opposition to a public option does not reflect the views of the voters he represents. As a Midwesterner, I can assure you that a majority of people in Indiana and Illinois are dead set against the public option. If Bayh should recuse himself from the Senate vote, then a majority of the liberal democrats in the chamber should also recuse themselves for accepting campaign funding from pro-public option neo-socialist groups. It all amounts to whose ox is gored.