Public Option

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This might be your tops. Everyone knows if you get educated and find a good job the perc of that is getting insurance. That is how this country works & that is why its important to get an education and find a good job.

Well, the above might be your top

Do you know how rare it is to get insurance, matching 401K, etc type benefits nowadays at any job? (and education has less to do with it than who your employer is) Usually only the largest companies now. It's simply too expensive - employers are cutting benefits, not offering it, middle and smaller companies, it's just out of reach.

That is WHY insurance reform is needed.

There is NO "taking from those who have and makeing them provide to others" in that.

Of course there is - the company has, the employee has not. The company offers to pay money in exchange for a certain measure of work from the employee. Employment is a cut and dried business deal.

Insurance costs are figured into salary cost for an employee. It's not a "perk", it's a big expense for the employer. One could get another $5,000 a year in salary, or one could get insurance offered.

The employee doesn't "deserve" or isn't "entitled" to insurance, any more than they "deserve" a continuous regular raise, or "deserve" access to a credit union, or "deserve" more money, etc.

He/She works hard to get that employer "what they have". and for that they deserve insurance from the employer.

LOL ... no. Employers want to hire people. To get the best people, employers will offer money. Sometimes that money is in the form of "stuff" like insurance. When that stuff is too expensive to offer, employers don't offer it.

& that 80% support a public option is a crock of **** riot and you know it. Unless you meant 80% do not support it then maybe you are a little bit closer to reality.

No, your 80% "do not support the public option" is a complete crock of guessing ****, Lori.

I did go look up the number of "nearly 80%" (which is what I said), and it's 76% of Democrats (not "all", as I said) support it, plus a good portion of independents (over 60%), and less than half of Republicans.

Why do you think only 20% of people support a public option? That's not even remotely close.

Why would anyone NOT want a public option? It doesn't affect anyone other than who wants to be in that pool (if the pool setup, exchanges, is the way it will be done), the pools pay for themselves by the income from the people in it. Everyone saves money by uninsured people being insured, as healthcare costs across the system are lowered, less tax money is used for Medicaid, charity hospital care, etc.