True or False - If you choose the public option, you can't later switch to a private insurer.

[YewNork]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't think that's true.

My understanding is that the public option, as currently proposed, would be available to people who couldn't get insurance from another source (e.g., you lost your job and can't afford individual coverage). I think that if you then got a job with coverage, you could take the employer-provided coverage and drop the PO coverage.

[orleans]

2. i say false. i don't think the purpose is entrapment. n/t

[Cleita]

It's all been a shell game up until now. I don't know how we

are going to make our politicians take us seriously.

[lapfog_1]

3. The real question is can you switch from private to public

without, say, losing your job.

[ashling]

4. Indeed

if not, then it is no option

[liberal N proud]

5. I recall, President Obama stating on Wednesday that...

You could indeed if on the public option, later choose to use a private insurer.

I also think the public option is available as a back up if you lose your insurance for any reason.


You could look in the text of the speech or listen to the speech again here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/health_care/

[sharesunited]

6. False. You CAN go private. The confusion comes from misrepresentations about Section 102.

The private insurance you can enroll in must be 3200 compliant. Grandfathered shitty plans will not be allowed to admit new insureds.

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