Medicaid or public-option

[politicaladdict]

I'm gonna try to start these forums little by little and want some answers

What would the differences between medicaid for the poor and the so-called public-option for the people who can afford health care be? Because there's this notion that we need one.

[Хahar 🤔]

The difference is that no public option will ever exist, because Congress hates America.

[Lief 🗽]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words:

Medicaid is an entitlement, wherein the government pays for poor people's healthcare insurance

The public option would be something like a government-owned corporation, wherein people on the healthcare exchange would pay money to the corporation, which would in turn provide these people with health insurance

Subsidies would be provided on a means-tested basis to all Americans not on veteran's health care, medicaid, medicare or other existing programs, regardless of whether or not they bought their health insurance from a private (existing HMOs and what have you) or public (the so-called "public option") health insurance provider.

[Ebowed]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

[politicaladdict]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

Why do we need a public-option if we have and Medicaid, aswell.

It seems that the other guy's argument is since medicaid is not insurance it doesn't count.

[Lief 🗽]

[Sbane]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

Why do we need a public-option if we have and Medicaid, aswell.

It seems that the other guy's argument is since medicaid is not insurance it doesn't count.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid but aren't provided insurance by their employer and can't afford it to buy it on their own. The public option, along with other reforms, should allow individual buyers of insurance more choice and more assistance if needed. We need to get away from employer based healthcare and this is where my disagreements lie with the Obama administration and the democrats.

[politicaladdict]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

Why do we need a public-option if we have and Medicaid, aswell.

It seems that the other guy's argument is since medicaid is not insurance it doesn't count.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid but aren't provided insurance by their employer and can't afford it to buy it on their own. The public option, along with other reforms, should allow individual buyers of insurance more choice and more assistance if needed. We need to get away from employer based healthcare and this is where my disagreements lie with the Obama administration and the democrats.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid? Define that? Oh yeah, the government!

Aren't the ones who are not on medicaid have enough money to buy there own insurance?

[Sbane]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

Why do we need a public-option if we have and Medicaid, aswell.

It seems that the other guy's argument is since medicaid is not insurance it doesn't count.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid but aren't provided insurance by their employer and can't afford it to buy it on their own. The public option, along with other reforms, should allow individual buyers of insurance more choice and more assistance if needed. We need to get away from employer based healthcare and this is where my disagreements lie with the Obama administration and the democrats.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid? Define that? Oh yeah, the government!

Aren't the ones who are not on medicaid have enough money to buy there own insurance?

The government doesn't qualify for medicaid? What??

The reason it is so expensive for individuals to purchase insurance (and for small businesses) is because they are not in a group. Big corporations can cover tens of thousands of people under one group and can get a discount from Insurance companies. Doesn't work for individual families or businesses with very small numbers of employees. Health insurance exchanges could remedy some of this and make purchasing health care much more affordable for families and small businesses. But yeah, I'd love to hear more of your incoherent rambling.

[Eraserhead]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

Why do we need a public-option if we have and Medicaid, aswell.

It seems that the other guy's argument is since medicaid is not insurance it doesn't count.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid but aren't provided insurance by their employer and can't afford it to buy it on their own. The public option, along with other reforms, should allow individual buyers of insurance more choice and more assistance if needed. We need to get away from employer based healthcare and this is where my disagreements lie with the Obama administration and the democrats.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid? Define that? Oh yeah, the government!

Aren't the ones who are not on medicaid have enough money to buy there own insurance?

No offense but how old are you?

[politicaladdict]

I'm gonna try to explain this one more time, with simple words

That's all well and good, mister, but if we have Medicare already why do we need a public option?

Why do we need a public-option if we have and Medicaid, aswell.

It seems that the other guy's argument is since medicaid is not insurance it doesn't count.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid but aren't provided insurance by their employer and can't afford it to buy it on their own. The public option, along with other reforms, should allow individual buyers of insurance more choice and more assistance if needed. We need to get away from employer based healthcare and this is where my disagreements lie with the Obama administration and the democrats.

To help those who don't qualify for medicaid? Define that? Oh yeah, the government!

Aren't the ones who are not on medicaid have enough money to buy there own insurance?

No offense but how old are you?

What does that have to do with anything?

[Marokai Backbeat]

Call us curious.

[Ebowed]

No offense but how old are you?

What does that have to do with anything?

Don't humor the extreme left's irrelevant questions.

Keep up the good fight - the day that everyone has equality of access to health care is the day that America self destructs.

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public option

[President Mitt]

Neither Please.

[Хahar 🤔]

Neither Please.

You're a bad person.

[King]

Neither Please.

You're a bad person.

If i had the money, i'd rather have an overpriced private insurance option over Medicaid, too.

That doesn't make me horrible.  just wealthy

[Хahar 🤔]

Neither Please.

You're a bad person.

If i had the money, i'd rather have an overpriced private insurance option over Medicaid, too.

That doesn't make me horrible.  just wealthy

It also makes you selfish. That's horrible, no?

[King]

Neither Please.

You're a bad person.

If i had the money, i'd rather have an overpriced private insurance option over Medicaid, too.

That doesn't make me horrible.  just wealthy

It also makes you selfish. That's horrible, no?

No.  I believe in universal health care for all.  I don't believe in low grade government health care.

It's like housing projects.  I support them, but if I could afford better, I'd live somewhere else.