A “public option” for health insurance would promote competition, proponents claim.
On what planet? If that were true on planet Earth there would be a thriving market of low-cost health insurance alternatives to compete with Medicare for senior citizens. There would be a thriving market of low-cost health insurance alternatives to compete with Medicaid and SChip. All of these “public options” have destroyed competition, not fostered it.
Democrats aren’t stupid and they can understand these facts as well as anyone, which leaves only one conclusion: the “public option” is neither about health care nor competition. It’s about power, control, and growing government.