Public option for healthcare

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Bond

Actually, the burden of proof is on you to clarify evidence that you used to support your claim.

I provided a reliable link to you that shows where the numbers came from(a link to a completly neutral online encyclopedia), and quoted the part that shows the source of the numbers. Which is more then you did to support those graphs. If you feel the source of the numbers are unreliable, and weren't suitible for this arguement (or suitable to be posted on wiki), then its your choice to persue that.

With that said, mind posting a link for everyone to see that shows those same graphs in that same context?

I would only note that I have presented a historical overview of why healthcare costs are so high, along with statistical charts and graphs to support my view.

I hope that I have presented to you a "good" argument against a public option.

I think the base problem with your arguement is that you fail to acknowledge the fact that a public healcare option is different from medicare and medicaid. Since the point of the public healthcare option is to help with the prices for people who CAN (or... shall I say 'should be able to') afford medical insurance and people who do have jobs, along with the elderly and people in poverty. This is a universal system, not something aimed directly at people who can't help themselves to an extent.

And you fail to acknowledge that fact that healthcare is not something that should be ran completly by the private sector, and that its a human need instead of a luxury. You completly ignored my comparision to public schooling. (The last thing you quoted in your second post was the closest you came to acknowledging it, and you completly missed the point making a reply out of context)

Do you honestly think the healthcare field is something that the government shouldn't have a foot in whatsoever?