<p>Woah, woah, woah. </p>
<p>“Add a public option- ok, I know what people are saying, but they actually decrease prices because they provide competition to companies.”</p>
<p>I liked what you were saying until this.</p>
<p>Now, at first glace you would think this to be true. Unfortunately not.</p>
<p>Whenever anything has a zero explicit price associated with it, consumer demand will increase substantially, and health-care is no exception. It won’t decrease prices but actually run insurance companies out of business because it monopolizes the market. The bad part about government monopoly is the increase in cost or inefficiency.</p>
<p>With a public option, you have already:</p>
<ol>
<li>Eliminated choices by destroying the health-insurance market.</li>
<li>Created a terrible government monopoly.</li>
<li>Increased mal-practice and special-interest attempts by insurance companies struggling to compete with the Government.</li>
</ol>
<p>It would be nice if the competition between government and private companies lowered prices but it only reduces the market. Look at the U.S. Post Service monopoly; Fed-Ex and friends are forced to find other markets that the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t exist in and the U.S. Post Office is still bankrupt.</p>