No Public Option - No Health Care Reform

The public option, government guaranteed health care, is the essential element of US health care reform. Without this element, without this guarantee, there is no essential reform. We are still subject to all of the greed, fear, and tragedy that the current system purveys. Like so many issues, this also boils down to whether we are all in this together or not.
There is no single element so threatening to ones basis needs (economic) as losing health care.
Yet, there is nothing of health care value that the insurance companies provide, profit is their sole motive.