The Public Option - Change the Rhetoric

How many people have had a good experience with their insurance company?

A public option does not hurt doctors, nurses or hospitals. So, why are so many people supporting insurance companies?

Our family insurance costs us $800+ a month or nearly $10,000 a year. If we have a public option, are our taxes going to go up that much? I doubt it.

Isn’t offering consumers an “option” and allowing open competition (including importing lower cost drugs) more “American” than our government supporting corporate greed?

Again, why are so many Americans worried about supporting the insurance companies over our government?

Last time I checked, the government was made up of people like my kid’s teachers, the local police, my friends and neighbors.

What’s more un-American than protecting insurance companies over the American people?

Lately, when someone says that they don’t support a public option I ask them why they support big insurance companies over the American people. So far, after a few huffaws, no one has had a good answer.

They don't address efforts to reduce the fragmented, duplicative, paperwork-heavy way we do healthcare for practitioners.

Some of the proposals are not affordable to regular people, in spite of proposed subsidies.

Some of the proposals limit enrollment to only those without insurance, negating "public" opting in.


Insurance corporations add no value to healthcare, they need to go...

Read articles at pnhp.org for more issues with "public" option.