This is a confusing post, because the public option isn't free healthcare it's a government operated business that is mandated basically to run off of it's own earnings, and to keep that to a minimum.  Because of this it is not related to taxes or tax increases; because it is not and will not be funded by subsidies.

 The Free Health Care that would raise taxes was the original NHS mirror option we started with and then because we Dem's (or our leader one) are pussies, we compromised that aspect out of the bill before we told anyone we wanted one lol.

A public option will have a stabilized low premium that will force the rest of the market to respond by lowering premiums or lose the vast majority of their customer base, thus once again forcing premiums higher on those few customers to make ends meet.  So in short Premiums will go down uniformly or else Private insurance will commit fiscal suicide.

 There is no point other than an empty threat which is only backable by sources such as fox news, and the LA Times. (even though yes, some of the data on this site references the LA times, I'm not a representative of TYT I just think LA times is biased in both directions somehow instead of neither. think about it when you read their stuff sometimes.)