Can America afford the Public Option?

Healthcare reform is going to happen but the question is can our nation afford the public option? I want to have healthcare reform with a public option just as much as the next person but what no one can explain to me is can we afford it. How do we pay for a public option without adding to the national debt one cent as President Obama said? This is a question that no one on the left or the right to can explain and if someone can explain it to me than I am all for it. The public option is not the only way we can get healthcare reform and get many more Americans covered but it is perhaps the only way we can cover all Americans but we might add to the national debt and the federal deficits for some years before we see any decrease. Still the numbers just don't show that with a public option, healthcare will improve in this nation either in terms of the cost. Still we can get healthcare reform in the form of coverage, prevention and reform such as affordiability and access without the public option but we shall see what happens.

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• Healthcare
• reform
• public option
• CPR

[loveesmith]

you werent cryin national debt when bush took us to iraq were you?

[hodaribrown4presiden]

I was not for the Iraq war back then and I am not for it now but we are there so we can't just leave otherwise we will be back again. Remember Afghanistan is our problem to begin with because nearly 20 plus years ago we helped them defeat the Soviets but left them afterwards. So we can't leave Iraq and Afghanistan now until we fix it or we will be in 20 plus years from now. Lastly the national debt issue is not just a Bush issue or Obama issue, its an American issue that we have to deal with.

[loveesmith]

what an idiot. who gives a fuck about the national debt. this is about here and now. many americans need insurance and the private sector who monopolize the health care is ruining lives. the government is now going to give them some competition and the savings is going to be passed to you. idiot. when the private sector cant compete they will be forced to drop there prices. then we dont have to go to walgreens and buy $300 in medicine that cost a nickel to make.

[hodaribrown4presiden]

Thanks for the name calling but now to some intelligent talk, I am for healthcare reform and a public option but adding to the national debt regardless if it is with healthcare or some other program only means future generations of Americans will have to find a way to pay for what they need in the future due to us driving the debt up high. So the real issue I have is that we as Americans only live in the short term and think of ways to fix the right here, right now which means future problems.

[hodaribrown4presiden]

Just think, we are in a new decade and we have the same problems from previous decades such as poverty, education and financial issues domestically. Then if you look globally we have health issues from HIV/AIDS rate growing like never before, wars from east to west and still many people without food, water or clothes.

So I will tell you who cares about the national debt, those future generations of Americans who will either have to pass the debt problem on other future generations or fix it.

[DetroitCityKev]

This is a good question. If the public option does pass, it certainly will not be perfect, it will have some rough edges, and it wont take the national debt down until a number of years have passed. Your hesitance is certainly justified.

[hodaribrown4presiden]

Thank you for this comment but don't get me wrong, I know the public option is the only way to insure as many Americans as we can but I am just worried about adding to the national debt and if it will decrease the debt as some of our politicians think it will because with a public option, I have not seen the CBO say it will.

[hodaribrown4presiden]

It is comments like this that have tried to destroy any real logic to the healthcare debate. As I previously stated, I believe that we will get healthcare reform and I want healthcare reform but I am not sure that we can afford a public option and continue to act as if it won't add to the national debt.

[samkurz]

What about adding to Americans that are dieing.

You idiot.

[hodaribrown4presiden]

I googled but the CBO shows that the Senate bill fits Obama's category without the public option but with the public option, the CBO's number might change and the House bills add to the national debt with the public option but without it they do. So please give me something better than google it. Show me something better.