OK, Cara, You don 't want a govt telling you what treatment you can have. I get that. Are you happy with big insurance telling you what treatment you can or can't have? Because that's exactly what's happening now. Big Insurance is canceling your insurance at the first sign of illness, or not enrolling you because of a pre-existing condition. And they are raising your rates to unaffordable extremes as you get older so you'll drop the coverage because you can't afford it. WAKE UP!!!

Your anger is understandable but totally misplaced. Big Insurance are the liars and cheaters, and they are scared to death of the public option because it is the ONLY thing that will force them to compete and lower their appalling costs, and ruin the gravy train that they've been on for years.

The myth that any govt program is inherently a failure is just that, a MYTH. While not perfect, Medicare works just fine, and has saved many lives. When you say "You People", exactly who are you referring to? The rest of us American citizens? I'm not rich either. I work hard for my money, and I'm sick of big medical corporations STEALING it from me along with my health,  with ridiculous costs and ridiculous conditions for receiving even the most basic care.
Do yourself a favor, stop getting your info from FOX news, and do some real research, and youll see that the public option works FOR you as well. Save your anti-immigration rants for the immigration reform argument, which is where it belongs. Not in the health care debate.

  I here you when you say,you don't want someone to tell you what treatment you can have. Now can you here the people that have worked their entire lives and still can't afford the health care that  they deserve?  Nobody is saying you have to use the health care provided for everyone else if you want to pay for a treatment that you can afford then by all means do so. What I am  asking for is people to realize that a healthy workforce means less loss of domestic product,less cost to employers, higher output by employee's and a healthier nation.

  I know from past experience that health insurance companies tell you what treatments you can have , what prescriptions you can get,and when you get dropped because they don't want to cover you anymore!!!!! Now you can be denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition. For which you receive no treatment for  because it is un-affordable.

Tell me when you get  on my side of the spectrum you  don't want some type of help. Tell me when one of your loved one's are in need of help and it's denied because you can't afford it you don't want government telling them they have to help. Then you can tell me what you do want.