This is not one of those blogs where I pose a question and then answer it; I honestly don't know the answer to this and I'm look for some feedback on the matter.
My full question is this, if the Congress were to pass a bill that offered subsidies for low income people to buy private care, eliminated the preexisting conditions problems and made it illegal to drop coverage of sick people; how would premiums and overall costs come down or even stay flat?  
I would imagine that helping people who don't currently have insurance go to a regular doctors office rather than the emergency room will help; but how much?
Obviously the insurance companies aren't going to take these limitations in how they can "save money" out of their ability to make a profit; so won't they have to increase premiums to pay for actually covering all of there clients through to the end?
I am an advocate of the Public Option, but I'm hoping that someone could explain how we might control costs without a large new competitor.

Antonin Scalia, in 2006, declared that, in the modern judicial system, there has not been "a single case--not one--in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops."

Justice Scalia it is time then for you sir to buy a tall ladder, a bull horn and to learn the name Cameron Todd Willingham. 

Mr. Willingham was convicted of arson and murder in a case where one of the top arson scientists concluded before Willingham's execution that there was zero evidence of arson and that there was no scientific basis for the original arson investigator's findings.  In the case of Mr. Willingham, the state of Texas carried out the execution of a legally and factually innocent person.

Here a link to an in depth article on Mr. Willingham's story in the New Yorker:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all

I've long been conflicted when it comes to the death penalty and even after learning of Mr. Willingham's horrific story I can't honestly say that I'm without conflicting thoughts today; but I can say that I agree with Justice Scalia and that we should all learn the name Cameron Todd Willingham and shout his name.  Not because he is likely to have been the 1st innocent person executed in this country; but because it can be proven and that he should be part of the dialog going forward.