Why are YOU in favor of "public option" health insurance?

Because the "public option" is ONLY going to provide coverage for about HALF the currently uninsured people right now - at the cost of about a TRILLION dollars. How can you back something that's going to leave 20,000,000 uninsured, and decrease the quality of care for hundreds of millions of others? Joseph, a good portion of those uninsured folk are here illegally. They STILL won't be covered - allegedly - under a public option program. Are you under the mistaken impression that health insurance companies make their profits off the premiums they charge? Because they don't. That's not where their profits come from. And the studies I've seen, have estimated the cost at a trillion bucks, and have estimated that half the uninsure now, will still be uninsured. Obviously, politicians believe it, too, or else there wouldn't be talk of fining people who wouldn't carry insurance! I guess my question is, if the GOAL is to insure EVERYONE, why is there so much support behind a program that DOESN'T INSURE EVERYONE? ?? Mohan, what exactly is the "object of insurance" that "is no more?"

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