You already have someone telling you what health care you need. Insurance companies do it all the time. It's called "case management."
Not every plan does that, those are usually indemnity, HMO(a government creation), and small networkPPO plans, case management is done to manage costs, and what makes you think the government won't do this to a higher degree?
If you want some specific treatment and your doctor says you should have it but your insurance company says you can't, guess what. You can't have it unless you pay for it yourself.
Insurance contracts state what will and won't be paid for in the form of pre-existing conditions and conditions that aren't covered, it's the purchasers fault if they go cheap and get burned, not society's, so why should society foot the bill for it. I am sick and tired of this argument being thrown out, plans state in writing their scope of coverage.
The public option would be no worse than that but at least you'd have public employees not money-grubbing capitalists telling you what care you could have.
Public opinion does not make law or change the protections of the constitution, this isn't American Idol, so this argument is absolutely vapid.
Edit- p.s. Many public employees are some of the laziest and least effective people out there because no private market factors exist for them to be otherwise, it's damn near impossible to fire them, and you have no choice when the public sector pirates business from the "money grubbing" private sector, the private sector must provide quality and a satisfactory outcome to exist and succeed whereas the public sector does not.
