Unless the "public option" is free or inexpensive it's snake oil.. and dangerous snake oil at that.

[Bettie]

63. Medicare for All or Universal Health Care

rather than the current "insurance for some, but that insurance doesn't want to pay for anything" system, scales.

Here's the thing. In those other countries, smaller populations work because it is a percentage of the taxes collected from each person and business. It scales. Our nation would collect more because there are more of us in the overall pool of "everyone".

Doctors would still get paid, in fact, they would get paid more consistently as insurance companies decide more often than you think to just not pay because....reasons. Hospitals might build fewer large atriums with beautiful fountains and marble floors, but there is a whole lot of waste and a whole lot of profit coming off the top of our system.

Take the profit motive out and the health care system costs a lot less and can give better more comprehensive care as they don't need to find work arounds to deal with things that health insurance companies don't 'like' to cover.

Then there's this: why come to a negotiation with hat in hand begging for the very least you can possibly accept? The only thing that buys is far less than the minimum acceptable. Why is dreaming big, asking for something that would help everyone such a terrible thing? And finally, how would everyone having access to health CARE take choice away from anyone else? All the doctors would be "in network", unless they decided to work outside of the main system in some kind of private concierge system.