Quote from ByLoSellHi:
Conservatives fought Social Security, too, and try taking that away now - Republicans dare not tread there.
I'm not voicing support or dissent for a 'public option,' but I am saying that a public option, if it passes, will become a program that future Americans will never give up if it passes.
Except if you 80 years old and need a major medical procedure. The Government will deem you as being too old and expensive to take care of, and will just let you die.
Why do you think people from Canada, the U.K., and other countries are flocking here for their health care??? Because health care run by Government's is a royal, bureaucratic cluster fuck!!!!! Just look at how the U.S. continues to fuck up running the VA hospitals. If you want a public option in this country, it will eventually drive all the private insurers out of business, and then you'll be stuck with the Government making all your medical decisions. For all the supporters of a public option, I hope it's your elderly parents that are the first to die, due the the Government deeming their care too expensive, and their age too old to be worth the investment. They will just have their care rationed, be given a pill for that cancer they have, and be told to die peacefully.