Are you in favor of including a public option in a health care reform bill?

I am in a government run health care program: TRICARE for Life. This is for military retirees. The program is not well run and many doctors and hospitols are beginning to refuse TRICARE. The same is true for MEDICARE. What evidence is there to suggest a universal public healthcare option will be any better?

Tricare isn't a company. Tricare is a program managed by an insurance company. I believe these companies bid for Tricare management. There are several regional Tricare "companies"', just as Medicare is managed regionally. My dad was retired military, both parents had Tricare, supplemental to Medicare. The only problem ever encountered (they lived to mid-90s, both died in 2005) was in transitioning from one Tricare "company" to another. I began oversight of their medial claims in 2001. The initial company went bankrupt, didn't pay claims, lost records. The subsequent company was quite satisfactory. They paid claims, even those that weren't paid by their predecessor! Do not point a finger at Tricare when it's the insurance companies at fault.

Will Eric Cantor ever have a town hall meeting? Oh I forgot, he is only responsive to his corporate supporters. Wake up District 7.

The reform yes. Single payer no. Everything the Gov't touches turns to do-do.

Reform health care costs and leave the insurance alone. Tricare is being refused by more and more health care providers. It is what is given to service members because the VA can not take cre of them due to government cost reductions. the VA is the epitome of managed/rationed health care and is worthless to over 40% of service members who were promised free care for life. anything above TRICARE BASIC cost the member more money. Fix the overall costs of medical costs and the rest will go down.

How many times can you vote? I've voted twice already.

Strange, they left out the option for those in favor of the single-payer plan, leaving the choices at mild public influence or less.

It simply amazes me that there are Americans, living in one of the most educated societies on Earth, who actually think that the federal government has the competence to run a $1 trillion-plus health care system when they are running health care for vets or seniors into bankruptcy, they can't run a simple delivery service and they can't even get a stupid little car rebate program right. How stupid ARE some Americans?

Cantor had one at the Sheraton Midlotrhian last Monday. You must have been asleep. The question you SHOULD ask is where is Democrat Bobby Scott's town hall meeting? Is he too afraid of hearing the truth to hold one?