Yes to public option or single-payer system, no to mandate alone...

I don't get it.

I don't see the point of passing a health care reform plan that has a mandate, forcing all to buy insurance, while it doesn't have a public option, allowing for an alternative to the greedy insurance industry.

Obama and Congress should offer a public option plan, or, even better, convert the plan into a single-payer plan, like the successful and people-friendly plans that other industrial nations have.

To provide a forced mandate for insurance from the insurance industry seems naive and foolish to me. The insurance industry is mostly the problem concerning national health care. We all know the insurance industry will do everything in its power and creativity to charge more, offer less, and try to make more profits. Profits shouldn't be part of a nation's health care policy. They should have never been part of it in the first place. And why should Americans settle for less than what residents of other countries receive?

I thought America was supposed to be first, best, setting the example, and leading the way when it came to the quality of life. Apparently not, when it comes to health care.