By Robert Gavin. Robert Pozen, chairman of Boston mutual fund firm MFS Investment Management, recently published a new book, “Too Big to Save?,’’ which explores the global financial crisis and the steps needed to reform the US financial system.

Within the context of state-based Connectors implementing the individual mandate, the most viable definition of the public option is a state-based health care plan currently serving governmental employees. That approach would sidestep the ideological debate, while helping to achieve the consensus goal of constraining health care costs.