It highlights an important poll showing the perspective on Iraq and Afghanistan wars from those who have seen them firsthand - recent veterans. Veterans' perspectives as a group are rarely shared and these findings deserve to be more widely known. The story is slightly flawed by the second paragraph ("the findings pose a dilemma for the Obama administration and Congress..."), which is unsupported by any evidence. It seems to be a combination of option and speculation rather than fact.
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The individual mandate (requiring every American to obtain health insurance) combined with lack of a real public option would effectively be an enormous subsidy to the insurance industry at the expense of the public. There is simply no rational argument to be made that a public option would somehow undermine the workings of the free market when the individual mandate is handing insurers a captive market.