I am a supporter of the public option plan for many reasons. Here’s my favorite. I don’t want my healthcare payments to be used to finance some company’s shareholder dividends, lobbying efforts, excessive CEO bonuses, golden parachutes, company jets, condos in Bermuda, or another diamond bracelet for the girlfriend.
Health care is a service that rightly belongs in the hands of government. Health care is too important to be reserved exclusively for the volatile and wildly fluctuating for-profit sector provider.
Both sides on this issue say the same thing: it’s about having a choice. OK. I choose the public option. If I can’t have my choice, then I really don’t have a choice, and someone is lying to me. Or so it would seem.
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