The Truth Behind Public Option

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU IDIOT

You free economy has collapsed or bubbled every five years for the last forty or ever since nixon. It nearly took down the world the last time...your system is an out an out failure that needs to bailed out by the same government you critize...if it were not for your gov and obama you'd be in real bad shape right now. But that's ok you just keep pretending that you live in a democracy that buys all it's products from China. Get a grip on reality dude!

Dude your wrong about every thing you say...you just don't get it. You pay the lowest tax rate in the industrialized world and that's what you get for it...we in the rest of the developed world and I mean the rest, you the US are all by yourselves in your opinion. The rest of the world is not having a debate nor are we going to change, it is you that needs to change...getting an education would be a good start, the free market you love just crashed or have you already forgotten.

Government competition w the free market is a most flawed concept. The government has no money of its own, it all comes from the taxpayer. Progressives are steadily turning this republic back towards the aristocracy that we so bravely fought to free ourselves from so long ago. I will not be subject to statists who think they know what is good for me better than I do.

Why should I be forced by progressives who know nothing of economics, to pay for someone elses health care? I already give hundreds of dollars to charity every year, pay an unlawful income tax, and pay taxes on just about everything else on a state and federal level. On top of that this will give yet even MORE power to the already out-of-control central government. The free market is the only solution, government intervention and regulation never works.

I'm sorry, but as far as the actual QUALITY of the health care, we are far ahead of any nation, regardless of your statistics on life expectancy.

The US is actually not fathoms ahead than any other nation, we spend the second highest amount of any country in the world in GDP (16%) on health insurance and we have a life expectancy of 78.1 and an infant mortality rate of 6.7. Compare this to Japan who spends 8.1% of their GDP and has a life expectancy of 82.6 and an infant mortality rate of 2.6

"Lieberman needs to be curtailed. See to it, will you Bond?"

"He's worse than Blofeld, sir."

"Yes, Bond. Some of these corporate people in America are the New Evil."

If the public option really is as bad as the republicans say it is, then why do they all seem to fear its success by going as far as to lie about it by saying it would drive healthcare costs for everyone else higher when it would in fact increase competition, therefore drive prices down. That's just scratching the surface of the lies.

If America has the best health care system in the world how come the U.S.'s infant mortality rate is one of the worst in the world?

Competition is the answer to every capitalist problem.
Laser Eye surgery is a perfect example. Most insurance companies don't cover laser eye surgery. The laser eye surgery companies have to compete through lower prices to attract customers. The technology got better and the price went down. That's how a real healthcare system works.