Reply #6: What , exactly, do you understand is being passed? What bill are you talking about?

[John Q. Citizen]

How can anyone sell a bill that isn't released, and the finance committee hasn't released their bill yet. So what are we being sold exactly?

Thanks for telling me, because i don't know.

I do know that the CBO (the Congressional Budget Office) analyzed HR3200, (the house bill) and said based one what was in the bill that within 10 years time up to 10 million people at most would be enrolled in the so-called "public option." That would mean, at that pace, that within 100 years time less than a third of the country might be enrolled in the public option.

The reason so few would be enrolled is because the public option would only be open to people who for some reason or other couldn't be enrolled in private for profit insurance plans that would be subsidized by tax dollars and means tested, just like the MA Romney Care plan. If you already have insurance, you wouldn't be able to enroll in the public option. If you could find a company, any company that would sell you insurance, then you couldn't be enrolled in the public plan. That is currently the way HR3200 is written, which is why the CBO says that 10 years from now 10 million tops.

So is this what we are discussing in terms of will it help or hurt getting that passed?


Or do you envisions some as of yet unintroduced "Public Option" that would allow anyone to buy into a lower cost government run plan and then you are asking the hypothetical will it help or hurt for this hypothetical plan?

Thanks, I'm just trying to understand your question.