Comments on: Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/ PNHP's official blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve W http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 Steve W Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:44:46 +0000 http://www.pnhp.org/blog/?p=346#comment-1475 Great analysis and historical overview of the public option and what happened to it and why it wasn't all that in the first place I'd like to give a shout out to Kip who I first and last saw in 1992 on a cross-train to the COACT Field Canvass Office in Minneapolis. Your lecture on single payer has stayed with me through the years and was the best, most comprehensive, and most concise over view on the subject I've ever heard. Glad and sad to see you are still in the trenches because damn it , it's about time we self insure as a country for health care! Great analysis and historical overview of the public option and what happened to it and why it wasn’t all that in the first place

I’d like to give a shout out to Kip who I first and last saw in 1992 on a cross-train to the COACT Field Canvass Office in Minneapolis. Your lecture on single payer has stayed with me through the years and was the best, most comprehensive, and most concise over view on the subject I’ve ever heard. Glad and sad to see you are still in the trenches because damn it , it’s about time we self insure as a country for health care!

]]> By: macman2 http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-1463 macman2 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:02:18 +0000 http://www.pnhp.org/blog/?p=346#comment-1463 Wow, a brilliant analysis and a terrific, well researched and thought out article. I think you have hit on the right strategy. Let's hope that HCAN is listening. Wow, a brilliant analysis and a terrific, well researched and thought out article. I think you have hit on the right strategy. Let’s hope that HCAN is listening.

]]> By: sbkemble http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-1465 sbkemble Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:38:52 +0000 http://www.pnhp.org/blog/?p=346#comment-1465 You are exactly right. Robert Kuttner made the same point on a talk show a couple of weeks ago, that we will have to smack down the insurance industry in any case to "bend the cost curve," and it is no harder, and perhaps easier, to smack them down with single-payer than with a watered down public option. The cost arguments are far stronger for single-payer anyhow, and that may sway a few "blue dog" types after appropriate debate in the media and education of the public on what single-payer really is. You are exactly right. Robert Kuttner made the same point on a talk show a couple of weeks ago, that we will have to smack down the insurance industry in any case to “bend the cost curve,” and it is no harder, and perhaps easier, to smack them down with single-payer than with a watered down public option. The cost arguments are far stronger for single-payer anyhow, and that may sway a few “blue dog” types after appropriate debate in the media and education of the public on what single-payer really is.

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