So we don't need a public option and private insurance is kinder and gentler than the government would be?

God forbid this should ever happen to you:

http://cbs2.com/local/nataline.sarkisyan.CIGNA.2.6...

Contrast this with the government, which actually tried to pass laws to keep Terri Schiavo, a brain dead woman, from being taken off feeding tubes. And guess where her private insurance policy stood regarding this? Oh, that's right, they didn't weigh in at all since they (Prudential) kicked her off their policy on June 30, 1990, just months after her February 25, 1990 collapse.

Medicaid would have covered her care indefinitely. True, there is no say and no recourse regarding the kind or quality of care, but wouldn't you say that's better than the callous removal of any kind of insurance coverage at all?