Healthcare Reform: What Do You Think About Public Option?

[Afro-Punk]

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains what a public option for healthcare coverage is.
Make your voices heard!
And have you guys seen the "Profits or Patients" video in which Bill Moyers interviews an ex insurance executive who explains how the current system works?

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07312009/watch.html Interesting.

[LesYpersound]

trust bust the health insurance companies.
no to negotiating prices down because that doesn't actually lower costs it just screws actual health providers. yes to comprehensive "one-stop-shopping" medical complexes like the Mayo Clinic. and so on.

[BlaqJeff]

I'm too stoopid to understand what the hell the public option is.I assume it means the gov't is going to pay the bill.
All I know is that I get pretty damn good health coverage through my job and that everyone deserves to get decent health coverage.
How that happens...

[LesYpersound]

public option is just an option... it's not single-payer which would mean only the government pays the bill.

[LesYpersound]

i like this video... treats me less like an idiot than robert reich...

but i'unno if its gov't or a huge pool of small insurance companies that should do the bargaining when it comes to costs.

[Darkness Unlimited*]

Sounds pretty damned simply to me.

[Darkness Unlimited*]

LesYpersound said:

i like this video... treats me less like an idiot than robert reich...

but i'unno if its gov't or a huge pool of small insurance companies that should do the bargaining when it comes to costs.

I didn't feel like R.Reich treated ME like an idiot. He just laid it out very simply. Right to the point.

[BlaqJeff]

I actually saw the first video and I saw the animated one a while ago. Assuming these videos are accurate, I know have a better understanding of what Obama is trying to do.Though I'm still fuzzy on a lot of other things.