Yeah, I don't know why politicaladdict finds this so hard to understand.
Also he's incredibly uninformed if he thinks a public option is the same as medicaid or medicare.
I'm uninformed? Why do we need a public health option for the poor and elderly if we already have medicare and medicaid?
YOU DOPE!
We don't, dope, and that's why the public option is for people who don't have either. The public option is NOT an entitlement program. It's a government-owned/run corporation that would sell health insurance to consumers.