Why would someone vote for Obama and not support the public option?

Read the bill. It's going to cost every person to join, somewhere around 12 to 1500.00. (hundred!) Now you tell me---if the poor can't purchase it now because they don't have 1500, how in the world are they going to buy it then??

PLUS, if anyone does not purchase insurance at 15 hundred per policy (or whatever the amount is), they will be fined over a thousand dollars for not getting insurance.

Does any of this make sense--=-----to anyone??????????

Really? you obviously either haven't looked at the polls or don't understand what the word against means.

i don't recall the public option phrase being one of his main talking points during the campaign. certainly health care reform was a main talking point but the public option part didn't play a big part in the discussion. during the campaign, he was vague on specifics but long on generalities. now that he's in charge that's his main problem, generalities don't work and he has no specifics. kind of like when he finally came around on off shore drilling and once elected that got taken off the table. he was and is a giant con job and a typical politician: say anything to get elected and reverse yourself once elected. we got hoodwinked big time.

I'm not sure it was necessarily a big part of his campaign. He spoke of it, as he also spoke of healthcare reform.

Anyway, I still support him & I'm in favor of the public option. I think many of the people are.

If so many people were against it I think we would be seeing a whole lot more opposition than what we are currently seeing.

I think the opposition has been exaggerated quite a bit by right-wingers and conservatives who are not in favor of it.

Not necessarily true.

Health care reform is about so much more than public option. Public option might be where he wants to go ultimately, but I don't think he expects it to pass right off the bat.

There are other ways to provide every person in the country health insurance. why make the taxpayer responsible when, if allowed, the free market could take care it? Abolishing big pharma and the insurance companies out of DC (kicking out the lobbyist) would go a lot further than the 'constitutional scholar' supporting unconstitutional legislation. Obama campaigned on supporting the constitution, not the further rape of it.

Because they have never experienced first hand how the already insured and working people are only one giant disaster away from filing bankruptcy due to unpaid medical bills- and that's WITH insurance.

I happen to support the public option, but the answer to your question is he was considered a lesser of two evils to many.

I'll bet you could come up with a Trillion reasons if you think hard enough.

Because they might be crazy, but they're not fools?