Reply #12: knr - Will it be a competitive public option as originally envisioned... [View All]

or will it be a public option in name only, so far it appears to be the latter.

But there will be mandates.

:puke:

The Incredible Shrinking Public Health Insurance Option

by Time for change

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6576051&mesg_id=6576051

"The story of how our previously promised public health insurance option shrunk from an option that was originally supposed to be offered to ALL Americans, to one in which “less than 5 percent of Americans would sign up”, as our President said in his September 9th address to Congress, is an incredible one. In this post I’ll discuss how that happened, possible reasons why “less than 5 percent of Americans would sign up”, and what it is likely to mean to the American people if we are unable to pressure Congress and our President to expand the public health insurance option to its original form..."