The government's so-called public option is really a step toward creating a federal monopoly under a single payer plan. No private insurer could compete against a government subsidized insurer. The only people who could possibly benefit are those who pay no income taxes and expect the rest of us to absorb massive increases in federal debt.
One can't help wondering whether the administration's attack on private health care insurers is meant to pave the way toward broader socialistic control. How about companies which market home, auto, life, personal and business liability insurance policies? They are all guilty of the same capitalistic transgressions. All are in business to make a profit. All show the same bias as health insurers in that they let us choose the coverage we want and limit payouts to those who purchased policies with their own money. All pay taxes to the government rather than compounding deficits through government handouts.
Is it unreasonable for the public to ask Congress to focus on logical efforts to reduce health care costs through tort reform, simplifying administrative paperwork, lessening costs of inefficient government controls, shutting down the fraud which is bankrupting Medicare and Medicaid and opening up interstate competition among insurers? Instead, our elected "representatives" seem determined to destroy everything right and to expand everything wrong in today's health care.

The reform comes from you kathy. You are going to have change, for the worse, big time and reform yourself in order to survive Marxist Messiah Care. We'll be praying for you.