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Originally Posted by onion-head hat
Interesting. You are saying that people would still have alternatives. The rhetoric that I have been hearing is that the plan will eliminate choice all together.
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Congress will definitely have their choice to not be on the peoples plan. (They also do not participate in social security - they have their own deal there too. If they didn't, they may have an incentive to fix it, but that's another story) To gain more control over the voters, what would prevent the public option from operating at a loss to drive some or all for profit insurers out of business? That is what scares people.
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Originally Posted by onion-head hat
In terms of the public option being for the "little people", their current option is being without insurance and I am sure most people would be against giving them the best insurance possible when it is coming out of our pockets. The only reason I think that some plan has to be instituted to cover the uninsured would be that they already get medical treatment on our dime. This is possibly a way for that cost to be over all less.
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So, if they are already getting coverage on our dime - how much more would it cost to expand coverage to the same people? Where will that money come from?
To the original post though, if this plan is really for the people, why not do something which would reduce cost in the entire health insurance system and propose tort reform?