Health Care Reform Debate - Single Payer Vs The Public Option

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

(1) no actual change in the

The first option is to not make significant changes in 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. It is also a choice we can quickly resolve, because we can not continue on the same road we are on today.

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 American Health is ranked # 37 in the world by the World Health Organization, and we rank # 50 in life expectancy (to means that people in 49 countries live longer than we do on average.) we are approximately 50 million uninsured people. Furthermore, it is more than just a health issue, it is also an economic issue. If our current system unchanged will bankrupt our nation.

(2) Public Option

Another possibility is a "public option." This is being pushed by President Obama and most Democrats in the House & Senate. This allows the creation of a "public health insurance plan" similar to 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 would be cheaper than private insurance plans available today, a new competition would force down prices in the private insurance companies. So, even if you do not select an option releases themselves, you would have a positive effect.

Public Option is a compromise between a first position with no change and 3 a place worth a universal health care system known as "single payer ."

(3) Single Payer

"Single Payer" government. This means that each health care needs will be covered by government health care plan. It would work something like Medicare, except, instead of just for certain people who are eligible, every American should be.

This would greatly reduce costs and paperwork. It would cover every American, no questions asked. This will likely result in far better health insurance for Americans. Other countries have in place similar health systems, and they spend a lot less than we do on health care and receive far better health and live longer than us. Simply put it is the obvious choice that we should be making.

The problem is that it would effectively kill the industry, health insurance, and they are far too powerful in Washington to let that happen. This means that while this 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 corrupted our political system.