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President Barack Obama addressed the nation\u2019s health care system and his plans for reform in a news conference yesterday at the White House. With nearly 50 million people in the United States without insurance, the President told reporters \u201cReform is not a luxury, it is a necessity.\u201d While Obama is not proposing a single-payer system to replace private health care companies, the insurance industry is nevertheless vehemently objecting to his plan to create a \u201cpublic option\u201d choice for Americans. The two largest private insurance companies also let their views be known yesterday addressing members of the U.S. Senate in a letter warning against the implementation of a public option. The joint letter from America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Shield Association stated its contention saying \u201cregardless of how it is initially structured, a government plan would use its built-in advantages to take over the health insurance market.\u201d Instead, they propose that regulation of market rules would negate the need to institute a public option. President Obama questioned the logic of the argument asking simply how a government plan could be perceived as such a threat to private insurers when they have long touted their virtues over the public sector in administering health care. Public support for the public option is strong, as evidenced by a recent New York Times poll that revealed that 72% of Americans favored the ability to choose between a private plan and a government plan like Medicare. <\/p>\n