I thought a “public option” was good enough when it came to healthcare...
Until I had no choice but a public option, since my job at the time did not provide insurance, and I had to endure going shopping for hospitals, having my previous doctor, dentist, and optometrist suddenly become out of network for me (as well as the majority of clinics.) That made me realize that a public option is hardly an improvement if it isn’t a good option, and private insurance companies will continue squeezing out the market, since clinics will almost always opt to only accept the pricier private insurance, and have the chance to charge fake inflated prices to anyone out of network. I’ve become increasingly convinced that unless many legal protections are put in place for those with a public option, we need to phase out private insurance.
The solution to this is to literally have the public option
be Medicare as opposed to some new program, since no American healthcare provider can fathom staying afloat without the 65+ crowd.
Splitting up the public sector health insurance market into three separate programs: Medicare, Medicaid and some new "public option" for everyone else unnecessarily dilutes the power of the government to negotiate competitive prices.
