re: #114 DaddyG

For me the deciding factor between government run health care and government regulated privately run health care (what we sort of have now) is that as long as we have portability rules I can fire an insurance carrier that doesn’t treat me well and find another provider. With a government entitlement program there is no incentive for them to treat me well in order to keep my business.

Granted that doesn’t guarantee my care will be paid for in either case, but everybody getting every treatment they desire regardless of cost or odds of improving quality of life is not viable in any system. Sooner or later there will be a “death panel” or a “you can’t have voluntary surgery to suck fat out of your thigh panel” no matter who runs the show.

Valid concern (except for the death panel poo, but that’s Palin’s fault, not yours). Would it help you at all to know that nothing in HCR this year would ban or even slow down private insurers from existing and doing business? That all a public option does is offer you something like Medicare, etc but if you don’t want it/can afford otherwise you can still go private?