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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
Cool, onwards to the public option or single payer!
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What is the "public option"?
EDIT: Okay, I took my own advice and looked it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...surance_option
Apparently this is what Pres. Obama actually campaigned on according to what I read there...and then backed off on it in favor of ObamaCare when he actually became President.
It was basically a govt. run insurance agency that would compete with private run insurance agencies.
And of course...just like the "single pay" (income tax paying for it)...there was no way in hell that the giant Insurance companies were ever gonna let that pass.
