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To: GraceZ who wrote (219291)	9/8/2009 2:21:29 PM
From: NOW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

so you see a strong public option becoming a reality soon?

To: GraceZ who wrote (219291)	9/8/2009 2:36:44 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

"I fully expect the "public option" to become compulsory in my lifetime, driving out any private insurance options until the private market has to arise to fill the gaping holes the way Medi-gap insurance does now." I frankly haven't followed the health care debate that closely because it is in flux and my Congresswoman would not vote for anything touched by Obama or a democrat unless it criminalized abortion. But I hear republicans claim that government can run [fill in the blank] - how are they going to run health care. And then I hear republicans say, if there is a public option everyone will use it (voluntarily) and private insurers will go under. They can't both be right, unless a public "option" becomes, as you say, compulsory. None of the existing proposed legislation requires a compulsory public plan, does it?