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From what I understand, it's not socialized medicine or some sort of government takeover.
It's a very basic single payer option that people can choose if they want to. You can keep your current health care or use a mix of the two.
If the government run option sucks and is a failure as the Republicans are saying with long waits and terrible care, then nobody will use it and will not expand. If it works well and people give it high marks, then it will grow and more people will enter into it.
You can have free market mechanics in a government aided system. Just like there is a postal service. People use it for their day to day mail but for actual shipping, people prefer to use a private firm, even though the post office offers the same service.
Do Republicans feel conflicted about the socialist postal service when they use it to send out their fund raising letters and attack ads?
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