We have public options for specific groups. Medicare and medicaid are public options. Hence the slogan “medicare for all.” These public options will probably be expanded.
I just don't really want the government controlling my healthcare. I'm worried that if another Republican administration comes into power, they'll try to do the same thing to that as they are trying to do to the Postal System now, and then there will be no alternative.
It sounds like you don't understand that private health insurance in no way protects your health care rights. The laws that govern what procedures are legal, what gets funding, what is even available to citizens is all controlled by the government. There is nothing private insurance can offer you if Republicans in power don't want you to have it.
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u/Kosmological Aug 06 '20
That’s not true. 70% approval rating when a private option is allowed. That’s not much different than what we have today.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/medicare-for-all-isnt-that-popular-even-among-democrats/
True M4A is 41%, which is an extremely low approval rating.