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Well, okay. Let's think about this. Well, public option is a proposed option that allows you to pay a government-run company your health care premiums, and get your healthcare from the government, as opposed to paying through a privately owned, non-government run company. There are a few problems with this. But first, just so you know, I'm not very educated on the topic, I'm 14, and if someone has a refutation or comment, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO POST IT AS AN ANSWER.Thanks.
Now, something I've been hearing is that since this public option guarantees care to anybody who needs it, this should include illegal immigrants. I truly don't know much about this, and basically nobody does, since the public is not able to view any of the health care bills presently being presented to congress. Id say that sucks. Who's to say what will happen to our own system? Surely not the biased, privately endorsed people who speak "on our behalf". We should at least hold Congress accountable, to the point where if, I don't know, Senator Harry Reid comes out with a statement saying states can opt out of this public option, we have lawyers all across the nation who can tell us publicly what it means, cite examples from the bill, and let us form our own opinions, and influence the debate accordingly. Millions of minds are better than 536.
Another point Id like to bring up, is if the public option is so good, why would we need private health care in the first place. The government/liberals (they) would say that it simply creates more competition for the private health care market. But, either you have every one in private health care, and the public option isn't needed anyway, everyone goes to public option care, and the private market disappears totally, or the more plausible and likely action, some are in private, some in public. But, why would some people pay extra taxes for the public option while paying for private health care. They wouldn't, that's the thing. Practically everyone would switch to the public option, because it is their only option. The private market would collapse, jobs would be lost, and then we are in the same place we started in, with one system of health care, except it being a government run system running off of government money, which we won't have, which drives up taxes, which can't happen.

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The Public option is the Governments attempt to decide who and what will be able to receive what services. Under the public option individuals can receive whatever care that is available to them at a cost that the Government decides is fair for that service. The rest of the cost for that service is taken from businesses and what the Government considers rich. If they tak too much, the business closes or the person is no longer rich.
If you are 55 years old and the Government decides you are too old for a heart transplant, you die.

It is impossible to control the population without controlling ther health, food and communications. Now you have to ask, why our founding fathers did not want to control the people and why they now want to?

BTW, the current policy, according to the White House, will only cover an additional 25 million, leaving 27 million still without insurance and 250,000 new unemploye people.

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The Public Option is an extension of the Medicare/Medicaid system. Medicare is a government administered Health Insurance program allowing qualified participants access to private medical providers. The money for this program comes from compulsory payroll tax called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).

Since all employees are required to pay FICA, the Public Option simply alters the qualifying requirements, allowing more Americans to participate in Medicare/Medicaid insurance program if they wish.

The Health Care Reform Bill that was recently signed in to law includes sweeping reforms of the current Medicare system to improve fiscal control and prevent fraud, waste and abuse of the Medicare system, which now cost the US taxpayer and average of 20 Billion Dollars per year.

The Public Option would provide Americans a low cost alternative to expensive private health insurance while still providing quality private medical care.

The US Government is not involved in the delivery of health-care, only the insurance.

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Public option (government option) means your insurance premium is paid to a government owned company.

Private option is a company not owned by the government.

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Public healthcare is a system in which the populace of a region or country have unlimited access to their nation's medical services regardless to economic or social status.

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