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6. The answer to the OP his is NO

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 12:56 AM

Dec 2019

ACA with PO is possible because voters supported it for the last two election cycles.

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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Don't practically all the criticisms against M4All also apply to the public option? [View all] Humanist_Activist Dec 2019 OP

M4A is the best option for health insurance reform. Period. HerbChestnut Dec 2019 #1

The best medical insurance to have . . . Aussie105 Dec 2019 #2

People don't want to be forced off their employment based insurance. RDANGELO Dec 2019 #3

People have been deliberately confused and think Voltaire2 Dec 2019 #11

That's true, of course. However, convincing them otherwise MineralMan Dec 2019 #20

Well for starters if we stopped regurgitating Voltaire2 Dec 2019 #24

+1. Uncle Joe Dec 2019 #59

But ironically, people today get forced off their current employer-based insurance all the time. thesquanderer Dec 2019 #32

Until their employer screws them by changing it or dropping it. Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #34

There is no real 'market' for health care, elleng Dec 2019 #4

Single Payer Drastically Reduces Administrative Costs ritapria Dec 2019 #5

The answer to the OP his is NO tirebiter Dec 2019 #6

Because people believed the lies from the health insurance industry Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #35

K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt JoeOtterbein Dec 2019 #7

Warren doesn't think so. That's why she's now saying to START with the public option. pnwmom Dec 2019 #8

Individuals with the means to do so will buy into a public option, if they so choose. OilemFirchen Dec 2019 #9

Such sliding scale premiums aren't enough to fund Medicare, it will have to also involve... Humanist_Activist Dec 2019 #13

When I was a state employee I actually had several choices. TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #10

It will cost more. A lot more. dansolo Dec 2019 #12

I don't see how a public option would be immune to any of those problems you mentioned. n/t Humanist_Activist Dec 2019 #14

I don't think that the public option would necessarily be immune to some of the problems of M4A, TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #19

re: "M4A...would create a monopoly in healthcare and like all monopolies, costs rise" thesquanderer Dec 2019 #33

But the money we put into insurance companies can now go into M4A. Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #36

Okay. TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #44

Why would I? Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #46

You don't seem to have any qualms sharing your opinion on DU. TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #48

Yeah, a discussion board. Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #54

No. Public option can be added to existing laws, no new legislation needed! beastie boy Dec 2019 #15

No new legislation needed? TCJ70 Dec 2019 #21

The trick is called executive action beastie boy Dec 2019 #22

To create a public option? Is there a part of the ACA that allows for a public option to be created? TCJ70 Dec 2019 #29

Indeed there is! beastie boy Dec 2019 #30

Are you sure? TCJ70 Dec 2019 #40

As the paragraph you erxcerpted from indicates, state-based public option already exists. beastie boy Dec 2019 #42

MfA adds one more criticism: lack of choice brooklynite Dec 2019 #16

Choice about what? Who your insurance company is? Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #37

As much as YOU don't like your private insurance, some people do... brooklynite Dec 2019 #38

Bingo The Mouth Dec 2019 #41

I like my insurance just fine. And I'm a union member. Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #43

LOL. TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #45

So do unions have power or not? Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #47

I haven't mentioned anything about unions in this thread. TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #49

Sorry. Thought you were the same as the beginning of this subthread. My bad. Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2019 #55

No. Not in the slightest. Try again, Humact. Hortensis Dec 2019 #17

No ismnotwasm Dec 2019 #18

They do if you ask the health care lobby BeyondGeography Dec 2019 #23

No...M4A ends private insurance...I am absolutely against this...as we will be tossed out of office Demsrule86 Dec 2019 #25

It doesn't. Voltaire2 Dec 2019 #26

No, MFA eliminated all private insurance for 160 million taxpayers Gothmog Dec 2019 #27

Only private insurance that overlaps coverage. Voltaire2 Dec 2019 #53

That means that everyone will have to give up their existing coverage Gothmog Dec 2019 #56

We need to build on the ACA and offer a public option Gothmog Dec 2019 #28

And then some loyalsister Dec 2019 #31

M4A doesn't have a profit motive nbsmom Dec 2019 #39

There's plenty of non-profit insurance available now. It's not noticeably better Recursion Dec 2019 #51

Some people get carried away with the "no profit" mantra. TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #58

All except one Recursion Dec 2019 #50

Single payer works. guillaumeb Dec 2019 #52

Great post. Aaron Pereira Dec 2019 #57