Reply #2: The argument against it is that it'll work [View All]

[Juche]

That is the real argument against it that the movement conservatives and insurance lobbies are making. A public option that is 20-30% cheaper than private insurance (due to negotiation power and lower overhead) that provides high quality healthcare will outcompete bloated private insurance carriers and prove that a government program can work to make life better for the American people.

Thats honestly the entire argument the conservatives and insurance companies make behind the BS and phony arguments. A public option that works will provide real competition, renew the concept of a functioning federal government and show the government can do things better than private industry.

Look past the BS and pretty much all the arguments come down to that. If a public option works, insurance companies will lose money and conservatives will lose political power and their ideology (government screws everything up, private is better than public) will look like a lie.