So, we're all to believe that this magic "trigger option" will cure all the healthcare industry's woes and a public option won't be needed because insurance companies are going to pull a complete 180 and offer affordable plans (even to those with pre-existing conditions) and won't required huge deductibles and co-insurance percentages and high annual out-of-pocket limits and won't limit lifetime benefits for conditions?

Excuse me for a moment while I ponder the probability of this happening....
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Ok, I'm back and I'm still waiting to see how this could ever happen. Insurance companies are going to willingly give up those tens of billions in profits? HA! Yeah, right! Stop pulling my...."trigger".


ALSO, how long are we supposed to wait to see if these wondrous lower-premium plans materialize? 1 year? 2 years? 5 years? Then what? Then wait ANOTHER few years until a public option can be put into place (assuming some future form of Congress doesn't turn around and gut the pending change)??

This country cannot afford to wait!

People cannot afford to wait!