Health Care Reform Debate - Single Payer Vs The Public Option

There are three options under the United States in today's health care reform debate, what follows is to compare and contrast between these three options.

(1) there is no real change

The first option is to not make significant changes to the system. This is the choice of the insurance industry that is making billions of dollars to get even during this economic recession. This choice is being pushed by Republicans and "Blue Dog" Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, since it effectively bought off by the insurance industry. This is the choice we quickly dismissed, because we can not continue on the same road we are on now.

system we have now is seriously broken. It costs more than any other system in the world, yet our actual health care is far worse than many other naroda.Sustav U.S. Health is ranked # 37 in the world by the World Health Organization, we rank # 50 in life expectancy (the this means that people in 49 countries live longer than us on average.) We are about 50 million uninsured people. Furthermore, it is more than just a health problem, it is also an economic issue. If our current system remained unchanged, it will bankrupt our nation.

(2) Public Option

Another possibility is a "public option." This pushed Mr. Obama and most Democrats in the House & Senate. This allows the creation of a "public health insurance plan" like Medicare. This plan would allow people to either stick with their current health insurance, or choose instead the government plan.

This would reduce costs because the government plan will be cheaper than private insurance plans available today, a new competition will force down the cost of private insurance companies. So, even if you do not choose the public option yourself, you will have a positive effect.

public option is a compromise between the first position with no changes and 3 a place worth a universal health care known as "one taxpayer ."

(3) Single Payer

"Single Payer" is the government. This means that each healthcare needs will be covered by government health care plan. It would work something like Medicare, but rather only certain people have the right, every American would be.

This would greatly reduce costs and paperwork. It would cover every American, no questions asked. This will likely result in far better health coverage for Americans. Other countries are in similar health systems, and they spend far less than we do on health care and get far better health and live longer than us. Simply put, it's an obvious choice that we should be making.

The problem is that it would effectively kill the industry of health insurance and they are far too powerful in Washington to let that happen. This means that while it is definitely the right choice for the American people, we're likely to see it actually happen, because they have too many rich fat cats of our corrupt political system.