A weak public option will be a failure.
A public option that doesn’t have Medicare price controls will not have a palatable price tag, and if it can’t coerce doctors to participate, then no one will, and the provider network within the public option with be dogsh!t and will collapse.
Only a strong public option, fully funded and backed by the US treasury (not premiums), and one that can control prices and coerce doctor participation has a chance of survival. I’m pretty sure all those things are deal breakers for everyone outside the progressive caucus.
We will see. I think a lot of the Democrat angst is make believe. I show of sorts.