Don't practically all the criticisms against M4All also apply to the public option?

[beastie boy]

42. As the paragraph you erxcerpted from indicates, state-based public option already exists.

Since Obamacare is a federal law, a Democratic President can use executive orders to expand on it without further legislation. here is what is likely to happen: if the president's opponents find an aggrieved party, which will in itself be exceedingly difficult since the system has for years been in existence on the state level, apparently without any parties being aggrieved, the order will be challenged in court. This is a protracted and complicated process, with several courts rendering opinions. It will take a year or more to reach the conclusion of this process, which may or may not be in favor of the executive order, all the while the public option being alive and kicking, This is sufficient time to build popular support for public option (Obamacare itself comes to mind), and then the legislators will have to think twice before they come on record against a popular program. By the time the issue gets to the Supreme Court, it may be politically inexpedient to take the issue any fiurher. But in the very unlikely event of SCOTUS ruling against it, passing public option as a legislative matter becomes so much easier!

The point is, it is far more difficult to repeal an executive order than it is to defeat a bill.