When concidering the health care "public option" I think of the mandated auto insurance. In my state you are required to have liability coverage for your car, and you can either purchase it from a auto insurance company, or you can pay into a state fund that does the same thing. Nobody pays into the state fund because they can usually get a better deal with the auto insurance companies. So a public option would not nessesarily kill the insurance industries, but they are also talking about making the premiums for the public option on a sliding scale. If you make less then you have to pay less. If you make more you pay more. This has me concerned because in effect you will direct poorer people into the public option, and the rich will get the "good" health care becuase the rich can get a better deal with private insurers than the government because of the sliding scale. If the public option doesn't deliver on good health care then the poor get shafted again in favor of the rich, and if it does then everyone gets a fair shake. Either way the sliding scale makes it unlikely that the insurance companies will go out of business because poor people are the ones with out insurance now anyway. I would also feel uncomfortable having uncle sam force me to buy a product from a private company without any government option anyway. The premiums for a public option would be basically a tax which I am ok with, but something doesn't sit well with me when I am forced by law to fatten the pockets of a private business.   See 4 other replies

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Really? The government controls all industry in America? All manufacturing and the banking system?.....really? Do you really think that? It's that kind of paranoia that sent Germany on a killing spree. You watch too much Fox news.If the public option is going to destroy all the private sector health care alternatives then what health care system are all those politicians going to use exactly? Way to contradict yourself. You could be a Fox news reporter with talk like that. The simple fact that so many people disagree with the public option is an indication that it will not dominate the competition, but might offer some a less expensive alternative. As long as you're ok with paying more for your private sector premium legislative quality health care, then they will thrive. But for many Americans, even basic rudimentary health care would help us live more productive lives. If you really care about American Industry then you would be concerned about the 18% of Americans under age 65 that are uninsured (U.S. Census Bureau).   See 4 other replies