anonymousliberal.com - 5/12/2009
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Opponents of health care reform have begun to focus their efforts on building opposition to a "public option." For those of you unfamiliar with health care policy debates, the phrase "public option" refers to a government health care plan that people would have the option of purchasing instead ...
Public Health Care Option
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/8/2009 — This is the objection the health insurance industry is putting forward in opposition to Obama's plan to include a public plan option in the health care reform bill.
But critics argue that with low administrative costs and no need to produce ...
Health Care -- Beyond The Public Option
pr.thinkprogress.org 6/29/2009 — HEALTH CARE Beyond The Public Option Tonight, ABC News will host " Prescription for America ," a discussion with President Obama about his plans to reform the health care system. Critics have charged that Obama's proposal to enact a new public health ...
It's not just the public option
washingtonmonthly.com 6/21/2009 — IT'S NOT JUST THE PUBLIC OPTION.... The latest NYT poll on health care shows 72% support for a public option, which, under the circumstances, is a statistic with considerable political salience. But looking through the poll, there was one other...
Obama wants a public option
washingtonmonthly.com 6/10/2009 — OBAMA WANTS A PUBLIC OPTION.... The White House, following up on yesterday's discussions with lawmakers on health care reform, sent a letter today to Sens. Edward Kennedy (chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee) and Max ...
Katrina and the public option
washingtonmonthly.com 5/20/2009 — KATRINA AND THE PUBLIC OPTION.... Congressional Republicans went after the public option in the Democratic health care plan with some of the rhetoric we heard during the presidential campaign: "The federal government would run a health care system -- ...
More on the public option
balloon-juice.com 8/17/2009 — I recommend Nate Silver’s post about the possible death of the public option.
A couple key points:
?Why doesn’t the public option have the votes for passage? You’d think that a provision that is both fairly popular and ...
What's the point of a public option?
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 6/5/2009 — In the national debate over health insurance reform, a key issue is whether the government should offer a "public plan" to compete with private insurers. For example, in today's NY Times, Paul Krugman writes , What’s still not settled, however, is ...
Who Needs a Public Option?
thedailybeast.com 8/17/2009 — BS Top - Yglesias Public Option Even without it, health care would be the greatest piece of liberal legislation in years. The progressive political world was sent into a tizzy over the weekend as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...
Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/24/2009 — Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America's non-system of health care -- private insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and medical suppliers -- have little or no incentive to supply high-quality care at a lower cost than ...
Public Support for the Public Option
fivethirtyeight.com 6/21/2009 — A major, though by no means the only, substantive point of debate regarding health care reform is whether the plan considered by Congress will include a "public option" -- a government-run insurance program that would compete with private plans. ...
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