re: #306 JustMyView

Even if your employer dropped your insurance plan, you would not have to join the public option plan. You would be eligible to buy insurance from a private company and, very likely, the rates would be lower than they are now if you were buying as an individual. Again, it’s an option.

You would not have the “option”, really. You’re employer pays the 8%, you are now in the public option. No real choice there. And since when can the poor and middle class pay for health care twice, nomatter how cheap it is? Your employer pays 8% for your “free” health care. You’re not going to go out and buy a plan on top of that unless you are on the top of the pay scale.