What's to fear about public option?
I continue to be surprised that so many Americans are comfortable with a for-profit insurance company coming between them and their doctors, but are so strongly opposed to the not-for-profit government playing a similar role.
People's high level of satisfaction with Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Affairs health care programs should give people confidence that a public option would be well run at low administrative cost.
And, for people who have insurance, little or nothing will change except that reforms, including more competition, should help control spiraling costs.
Mary F. Warren
Wheaton
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