Conservatives are having a field day implying that any government plan will wipe out the private insurance industry. We could mollify the critics by restricting the government plan to those who can not get acceptable coverage from the private market. This could include retirees who are still carried on their companies policies until age 65, but are paying increasing costs as their former employers are not sharing the cost burden as they do for active employees. Also those not currently able to join a group (like a major company or union) could join the government plan as individual health care policies seem prohibitively expensive or coverage can be denied due to pre-existing conditions.
Those who are currently covered by group company plans, unions or other groups would not be eligible for the public option.
I have written an email to one of my senators (Robert Menedez). He is not on the pertinent committee, but I asked him to forward my email to Sen Sherrod Brown of Ohio who is on the committee. As an Ohio State Buckeye alumnus I think I should have incredible pull with Sen Brown (lol?)
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