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Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream , and an occasional contributor to The Treatment.
Diane Archer is the director of the Health Care ...
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The Democrats wheedled, cajoled, begged, and finally abandoned
its defense of abortion — truly a watershed moment
— in order to get their version of ObamaCare passed … [...] Read the rest »
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A more modest vision for the public plan
Ezra Klein —
... Jacob Hacker and Diane Archer make the argument for the public option with negotiated rates. Medicare rates would be better, they say, but the public plan can still play a host of valuable roles, some of which people don't really talk about. ...
Yes, It’s Worth It
Suburban Guerrilla —
Jacob Hacker, author of the public option idea, on why we should support the reform bill.
Today's Health Care Reform Debate
DownWithTyranny! —
... This evening the House will vote on whether or not to pass the historic-- if very imperfect-- health care reform bill. It could have been so much better. But to appreciate how good it is, just look at the Republican alternative joke bill that John Boehner, Roy Blunt and Paul Ryan put forward. We don't often laud Debbie Wasserman Schultz here but she hit the nail on the head when she dubbed it the "Health Insurance Company Protection Act." Here's what the GOP is offering in the place of meaningful health care reform: ...
House Passes Health Care Reform – Looking Back
Firedoglake —
... running on it in earnest by 1948 and the Truman Administration. This is the first time it’s passed even one House of Congress. It would cover 36 million Americans who previously did not have health insurance, and would pay for that through ending waste and subsidies in Medicare, sharing sacrifice among all stakeholders, and responsibly raising revenue on those who can most afford it. It even includes a public option to compete with private insurance companies, one that Jacob Hacker, the godfather of the public option, deems worth it, despite the use of negotiated ...
Jacob Hacker: The House Public Plan: Yes, It's Worth It
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
... it's still immensely valuable to give Americans an out--another choice--to let the insurers feel the heat of not being the only game in town. The fierce and continuing opposition of the insurance industry suggests that they think that a public option will prove a serious counterweight in an increasingly consolidated private market. The overwrought pessimism of the pundit class should not aid them in their cause of protecting themselves from a public-spirited competitor. http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-tr...
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