Final Health Care Bill Will Have a Public Option

Tom Harkin, is the Democrat who has taken over after the passing of Ted Kennedy. This puts him as chairman of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. With the new position he has been working on the health care bill that will now include a public option. He says that the bill will be on the Presidents desk by Christmas. To pass the bill, however, they need sixty votes to even end the debate before an official vote can be held. There are five members of the Democrat party that are said by Harkins to be holding up the progress, but Harkins is positive that if the five go on board then the answer will be "clear". The estimated cost of the health care bill should be about $900 billion over ten years, and will make the purchase of some sort of health insurance mandatory to all Americans.
In my opinion this seems slightly hypocritical. They are saying that some sort of health insurance is going to be made mandatory to all Americans, but the original purpose to the bill was to make health care available to all. Right now there are many Americans who can't afford health care and that is supposedly why this bill is being introduced, but if they make it mandatory to buy some sort of health care than how are the current Americans that are unable to afford health care pay for it then? It makes no sense to me and I don't believe that the there should be universal health care in America.