Reply #3: A strong option would be like Medicare for all.

[Cleita]

Medicare right now is for seniors, however, twenty years of interference from Republicans have made it less robust. If the fee schedules were updated and the deductible and copays eliminated it would be an improvement. Also, many seniors can't afford the premiums for Part B and Part D. Those should go. Now if you extended that to everyone who wants it, you would get a strong public option administered by the government.

A weak one is any option that subsidized insurance for those who can't afford to buy insurance. Of course the insurance companies still have a say in what they will or will not pay for. Most likely you will still have huge deductibles and co pays because most likely it will be only catastrophic insurance. No body will be giving anything away. So basically, the health insurance industry has won.