The doctors can fix my eye, but the insurance company won't let them. Despite an operation that has been around for ten years, is FDA approved, and has a 97% success rate, Blue Cross says it's experimental.

I keep hearing that insurance rates will double over a decade if we vote in the public option, but my company's insurance rates double every five years. That means with the current system our rates will quadruple. It seems to me that the public option is a much better deal.

Plus I hope that we end the practice of letting for profit insurance companies decide who lives, dies, or stays disabled. Our doctors have created some amazing new technologies, but the decisions are in the hands of insurance companies rather than in the hands of doctors.

I have always been a conservative voter, but the compassionate vote is what's important.