Reply #27: Don't see why Public Option Medicare wouldn't be successful. [View All]

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Of course this assumes PO isn't handicapped by restrictions on who can get in. I'd prefer the PO that the CBO said would have 130 million switch from private insurance voluntarily, simply because PO wouldn't be a bloodsucking leech charging exorbitant premiums so the CEO can have his $100M salary and his own private jet to fly across town.

Not to mention people who want to get out from the insurance company bullshit like 39% denial rates on claims. Healthy people will worry about that too when that comes out, because denial rates that high directly undermine the security that insurance by its very definition is SUPPOSED to provide.

Unfortunately if the Senate Finance Committee has its way you are probably right--but with a strong PO the private insurance industry would lose so many customers that regulation would be almost redundant.