This may come as a shock to some of you, but I whole heartly support Health Care Reform that includes a public option. Health insurance companies are evil. You need to hear what Wendell Potter has to say about them. I believe that Wendell Potter was touched by the suffering he observed, and elected to give up his high paying job with CIGNA and go public with this information to put an end to the suffering.
I have my own inside experience with the insurance giant CIGNA. Rather than buy the ground breaking cafeteria planning software product I helped to archtect 25 years ago, which allowed you to spend your insurance benefit any way you chose, CIGNA decided to buy the company so they could control the distribution technological innovation, which they then screwed up.