Why fear the public health insurance option?

July 31, 2009

Since it now appears that there aren’t enough votes in Congress to pass Single Payer, President Barack Obama’s public health insurance option offers the best current chance for the U.S. to become the last industrialized country to achieve universal health insurance. Since the public option wouldn’t create a government health insurance monopoly, then why are Republicans and some of the more conservative Democrats opposed to it? (Examiner)