I do not agree with your arguments about cost or availability.  The costs that you refer to are the exorbitant and out of control costs that are being generated by the monopolistic healthcare industry NOW, before any meaningful reform.  Adding the Medicare like "Public Option" will introduce real competition into the healthcare industry.  After reform takes place the CEO of CIGNA may not be able to make $26 million.  After meaningful reform,  which includes the "Public Option", is completed the healthcare industry will have to provide healthcare to their customers to stay in business.  They make obscene profits now by simply denying healthcare to people and insuring only healthy people who will not cost them anything and Congress has not forced their hand.

Meaningful healthcare reform will make the system much more efficient.  Medicare has a 3% overhead compared to the 20% and higher for the healthcare industry and the 15% to 17% overhead for Medicare Advantage Plans that are supposed to compete with Medicare

A recent poll says that 72% of Americans want a Medicare like Public Option.  They are willing to pay the price to have a healthcare system that enables them to see a doctor when they are ill.  Government officials in countries with universal healthcare systems are able to manage them successfully.  The populations in those countries would be very upset if the governments attempted to end those systems.

It is time to quit pretending that our healthcare system works just to accommodate the healthcare industry.  It is time to provide a streamlined system that makes sense and provides every American the opportunity to access quality healthcare.  Thousands of Fourth Congressional District Mississippians are counting on you to help provide them with that opportunity.