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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Will Public Option Premiums Be Higher Than Private Ones?
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RT @RyanNewYork Ezra Klein: why the Public Option's plans won't be cheaper than private insurance. Smart take. http://bit.ly/3aYIOe #P2 #HCR 10/30/2009 |
Dumping Will Kill Us All
Balloon Juice —
... If a bill like that reaches the Senate floor then we might as well spike it. I am not kidding about this. Both the politics and the policy will suck hard for Democrats. A “public plan” with no dumping protection could function worse in practice than if we did nothing at all, and a public plan flameout will delegitimize the Democrats. As a bonus it will also effectively kill off any public support progressive health care reform. ...
Will Public Option Premiums Be Higher Than Private Ones?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
That's the CBO's assessment. Ezra explains why. And worries.
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Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... . * Will the public plan have higher premiums than private insurance? Ezra Klein takes a closer look . * More evidence that a lack of health care coverage ...
A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill At All
Newshoggers.com —
... And the center of attention has been on the so called public option. Well this is no surprise, Ezra Klein reports that the public option in Pelosi's bill will actually end up costing more than private insurance. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Supporters of the climate bill passed by the House and the similar bill under consideration in the Senate -- including President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders -- say that the cap-and-trade approach would guarantee greenhouse-gas reductions. But this claim ignores the flaws inherent in both bills that would undermine even their weak emissions-reduction targets and would lock in climate degradation. At least they accept climate degradation. Ezra Klein on driving the ill into an indescriminate pubic option, making it more expensive: ...
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Grasping Reality with a Ten-Foot-Long Flexible Trunk —
... Brad DeLong: Okay! Okay! Uncle! Uncle!
Ezra Klein - Will the public plan have higher premiums than private insurance?
Will the Dems Back Away from the Public Option?
The New Republic blogs —
... the charge, citing the CBO score this Sunday in his teardown of the public plan on "Face the Nation.") There are still ways to improve the public option without dealing with the pricing issue--through reforming the risk-adjustment measures in the exchanges, as Ezra points out . But it's also easy to imagine moderate Democrats who were persuaded to support the public plan on its cost-saving merits losing heart, when even liberals are asking themselves if the public option is "a ...
What Now for the Public Option?
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones —
... than some private plans. Wasn't part of the point of the public option to prove that a government-run program could compete successfully with privately-run plans? Well, yes, but here's the problem: that was all based on the idea that the public option would pay health care providers at Medicare rates. That's been compromised out of the bill and now the public option will be paying rates comparable to those paid by private insurance. Ezra Klein explains what that means: ...
Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full, Part 2
Angry Bear —
... Thus, his words have had a powerful influence both in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. Virtually no one has questioned his assumptions. At the end of October even the Washington Post’s estimable Ezra Klein quoted Elmendorf Will The Public Plan Have Higher Premiums? concluding that the public plan will be expensive. ...
Bill Scher: The Insincerity Of The Public Option Haters: Lieberman's Weasel
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Yes, it's true that the CBO estimates that Reid's version of the public plan would end up offering premiums that are "somewhat higher than the average premiums for the private plans" it would compete against in the proposed health insurance "exchanges." ...
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