Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
| Christiaan Barnard, Scientist (1922) |
| Richard Cecil, Clergyman (1748) |
| Dorothy Day, Activist (1897) |
| Alain Delon, Actor (1935) |
| Lynndie England, Criminal (1982) |
| Sarah Fielding, (1710) |
| Leif Garrett, Musician (1961) |
| Martha Gellhorn, Journalist (1908) |
| Mary Hart, Entertainer (1950) |
| June Havoc, Actress (1916) |
| Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress (1965) |

