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If the government offered a public option for medicare at rates that were sustainable for the government, but significantly below market prices for health insurance companies, that could be a real danger to health insurance companies.

So that's what I'd like to see happen.

By having a national health care system that would obviate the need for private insurance.

Pay your own bills.

I do. I also pay the bills of millions of others who are in my insurance pool. But it would be less for all of us if we were all in the same insurance pool.

Medicare?

In the context of government it would mean nationalizing them.