You just made one of the best arguments for having a public option
Rates have been going up in double digits for most of the past ten years. If people have a choice of keeping their old plan and paying more to see their own doctor or paying less and joining the exchange, it's an economic decision on their part. Isn't this the workings of a free market that you teabaggers love so much?
If you want competition so much why are you guys so afraid of a public option? If private plans are so superior let them compete.