Reply #62: But is it a "public option" if you can't "opt" for it? [View All]

[lapfog_1]

His estimate that only 5% of Americans will use the public option ISN'T because they would choose to stick with Blue Cross Blue Shield or Wellpoint, it's because IF you already HAVE that, you are stuck with it. And at the current premiums that they charge you and the at a "out of pocket" that won't BANKRUPT you. That's what *I* heard him say. Now "bankrupt" in an interesting term. What would someone consider "bankrupting" charges to cover medicine or procedures? $1K a year, $10K a year, $30K a year?.

The devil is in the details.

Details that we really haven't seen yet.

And the exchange won't be up and running until AFTER the next Presidential election.

(Does anyone here care to ask "Why?" Is that so hard to do that it will take years? Really???)