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- johndiggity0
the real problem is that obama has failed to articulate what exactly this reform bill entails and how it is going to be financed. he either doesn't know himself, or is trying to mislead the public about it.
he brought up a "self-sustaining" public option "meaning taxpayers aren’t subsidizing it, but it has to run on charging premiums and providing good services and a good network of doctors..."
i'm not sure how there can be a public option that isn't somehow financed by taxpayers. and if it is in fact publicly funded, why would you do this when the other comparable publicly funded healthcare option, medicare, is going broke.
people have a right to be up in arms until he is able to explain how this public option is going to be funded. the us government has a slew of failures when it comes to running businesses—amtrak, the post office, freddie mac and sallie mae just to name a few. why would we want to trust health care to their stewardship in the first place?