1. Real Choices

If you like your health care, you should be able to keep it. If you don't, you should have choices, including a public health insurance option.

2. Create Competition

Public health insurance plans are more efficient and cost effective. We should create a new public plan to compete with more expensive private insurance plans to drive costs down.

3. Guaranteed Quality and Affordable Care

A public health insurance option would guarantee that every American would have quality, affordable health care no matter what happens to his or her job or private insurance.

4. No Taxation of Benefits as Income

Taxing health care benefits as income would increase costs for Americans, not lower them.