What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?

Unfair competition for established health care/insurance companies? Is health care out of control? How can it be reformed?What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?The biggest issue is that the 'public option' will not be able to compete with private health insurance. If for no other reason - private health insurance compensated medical service providers better. As a result, doctors will prefer to see private insurance patients over public insurance patients.



This will produce long waits and poor service for people using the public option.



Another issue this would create is that the people who are currently paying for their own health insurance will be required to pay to subsidize the 'public option' in addition to their regular premiums. (Remember that somebody has to pay for all this.)



I have had to deal with government run healthcare (the VA) before. As a result of that expierence I really want to keep my private insuranmce.What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?
Nothing. Like one guy above me, it is essentially expanding Medicare to anyone who wants it. Perhaps the mistake was not just calling it that in the first place.



The money from Insurance that has poured into the "Health Care" debate has done nothing but lie and obscure real issues that should be of concern to everyone. What does the Insurance industry bring to the table in a health care debate? Nothing. They provide no commodity, product or service that in any way improves health care, unlike hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, medical research, etc. Their business offers consumers a way to pay. The only way they can "earn" a profit is to find ways to increase their charges and limit their payout. Their goal is to prefect the best way to assess which people are mostly likely to die without costing them too much, or to limit their services by canceling those who don't jive with their mathematical formula. Their interest in Health Care isn't about quality of service, but rather profiting from the simple fact that people get sick.What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?The public option is basically the medi-care program enlarged to accommodate more citizens. Presently and in the future if public option becomes mandated Doctors and hospitals will be paid in the same manner as now with no late payments really. Remember its not medic-aid which is the plan that many Doctors and hospitals hate because of late payments bu the states.
it always boils down to money. how would it be financed? would it be unfair competition? how do you control health care costs, which really are at the heart of the issue. insurance companies are not going to do anything until they start losing money. in the meantime, if you lose coverage, it,s no skin off their teeth. two things i want: #1. continuing coverage from employer to employer. millions of people change/lose jobs. they now lose coverage under those conditions. no rejection for preexisting conditions.What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?There's nothing wrong with a public option, despite what the fear-mongers would have you believe.What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?
because it doesn't conform to conservative values, whether or not is better than the present system is of no importance to cons!
Nothing. Increasing competition will not put private insurers out of business.What is wrong with a "public option" in the US' health care reform legislation?
I don't know, ask Obama. He's the one who's backtracking from it...