A public option - How it can be done without endangering the current health care system (Coatoam)

The public option does not have to be part of the private health care sector, even though insurance reform without a public option is essentially meaningless. The VHA is already a single payer system. Insurance and tort reform can be instituted in the private health care system, while the public option can become part of the VHA. This would result in real competition between the two systems so that health care costs will be held down.

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• public option
• health care reform
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• Dr. Coatoam

[engio]

Great video! These are great ideas!

[Americanology]

Thank you. I just wish I had the talent to express the thoughts in fewer words. Anybody viewing this video has to be looking for answers rather than looking for a fight. If someone more articulate than myself wants to take this idea and run with it, I welcome them to do so.

[splitpawspeaks]

thanks for the post! Good too hear a third idea

[Americanology]

Thank you. If we all work together as Americans, we can come up with the best idea for ALL Americans. This should be about health care, not politics.

[Americanology]

So basically you feel there should be a public health option in the private sector that would become like medicare, and at that point you would be happy that our health care system would become just like Canada's health care system. Is that right? Iy you don't mind, I would like to ask you a question. Are you presently insured?

[joestarlite]

I don't believe we should turn the private health care sector into a system of socialized medicine like England. I think we should keep the health care system private, and make the insurance system public like in Canada. England and Canada have two different systems. England is socialized where the government runs the all the hospitals and clinics and employees the doctors and nurses (like the VA). Canada has private hospitals and doctors, but the insurance is public (like medicare).

[Americanology]

You did not pay attention to the video. There would be a public health insurance option in the VHA for uninsured individuals. I concur that the VHA is like socialized medicine. How do you figure that turning the private health care sector into a system like England or Canada is any better? People would still have the option of belonging to either system this way. Otherwise there will just be two socialized systems. I do not believe that you understand the problem.

[joestarlite]

We need public health insurance option. The VHA is not health insurance, it is socialized medicine like they have in England. Medicare is a single payer public health insurance system like they have in Canada. Our country would be best served by a single payer insurance system like medicare.