Great everyone can have a choice, yet with the regulations the government will put on the private companies the costs will sky rocket at private companies... forcing everyone into the public option.
Listen yes you will have a choice... today, however the simple economics behind the issue is that if we move to a public option the insurance companies will go out of business and will will move to a public run health care system.
Of which it could work, however with our current obesity issue, and high cost, it won't work...
The UK has the system you are talking about, and it works fine, the issue is they are going bankrupt because of it. Further they don't have the immigration issue nor the obesity issue we do in America..
I encourage you to watch CNBC world in the middle of the night and watch them talk about what they are going to do to fix their health care system... THe very "broken" system as they call it which we want to move towards...
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