Haven't I been telling you this all along? It will cover almost no one.

Time to smother this entire reform effort with a pillow and support single payer that actually WILL cover every American.

Public Option Plan Will Cover Few Americans, New Statistic Reveals

The budget office estimated that about 6 million people would sign up for the public option in 2019, when the House bill is fully phased in. That represents about 2 percent of a total of 282 million Americans under age 65. (Older people are covered through Medicare.)

The overwhelming majority of the population would remain in private health insurance plans sponsored by employers. Others, mainly low-income people, would be covered through an expanded Medicaid program.

To be fair, most people would not have access to the new public plan. Under the House bill, it would be offered through new insurance exchanges open only to those who buy coverage on their own or work for small companies. Yet even within that pool of 30 million people, only 1-in-5 would take the public option.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/01/p...c_n_341408.html

we can trust our politicians with our healthcare...

Not sure what you're complaining about. Sure it starts off being disingenuous and toothless. But eventually it'll get you what you want (single payer). Trojan horses are sneaky that way.

Thankfully there are enough dumb extreme liberals in Congress who don't want the Trojan horse. They want to destroy private industry as fast as possible.

Private insurance is well on its way to destroying itself. They don't need the government's help.

If that's true, then the government should get the fuck out of the way until it happens. Then they'll have the 60 votes needed.

but then again, you're the idiot who thinks the ACORN story wasn't newsworthy.

Only right wing hacks think the fake ACORN sting is newsworthy.