…for past health conditions using cost and claims data from its FFS pool, state governments under MMC typically do not have a public FFS option and thus will not have…
Taking Advantage
How Corporate Health Insurers Harm Americaās Seniors
…impact on the most vulnerable communities, reinforcing inequities in health care access and outcomes. When patients encounter these issues in MA and wish to switch back to Traditional Medicare, they…
Current Affairs: Why a ‘public option’ isn’t enough
Why a "Public Option" Isn't Enough
…to support public insurance has bought the concept that we can avoid disruption of the existing private health plans by the incremental addition of a public option – an optional…
A Government Takeover of Health Care, with Higher Costs, and even Worse Care??
…of the most effective attacks recently made on “public option” health care reform efforts. The response that is necessary concludes this essay. 1. The public option would mean a government…
Reducing California’s single payer legislation to a public option
California Legislative Information
…Project (ITUP) entitled “Exploring Public Option in California,” highlights the issues and options related to public option. The issue brief defined public option as a publicly operated health plan choice…
Part 6: Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all
…explanation that makes sense is that Stern and other Herndon Alliance leaders had decided earlier (probably in 2005) to substitute the “public option” for single-payer; they had already anticipated that…
The Democrats' Authoritarian Health "Reform" Bill and the Ascendency of Corporatism in the Democratic Party
…public option as an acceptable compromise in the context of a larger health insurance mandate. For many of these progressive liberals, the idea of the public option, at least at…
The Democrats’ Authoritarian Health “Reform” Bill and the Ascendency of Corporatism in the Democratic Party
…public option as an acceptable compromise in the context of a larger health insurance mandate. For many of these progressive liberals, the idea of the public option, at least at…
Bipartisanship breaks down over "public option"
The Public Plan Option: Bipartisanship, Or Fear And Loathing?
…the Massachusetts version of universal coverage… and also a “public option.” The subject of the public option came up frequently in the course of the Feb. 2-3 National Health Policy…
Joe Biden Missed His Golden Opportunity to Attack the Pandemic
One of the best ways Joe Biden could have attacked the pandemic and boosted the US's vaccination rate would have been to fight for Medicare for All, or at least a public option. He refused to do so.
…the current private health insurance-based system. Public option proposals at the state level, meanwhile, have also come up against stiff opposition. When Washington state passed its public option plan in…
Medicareās disadvantage
…narrow medical networks and unexpected discontinuation of coverage for medications. These measures maximize profit, but harm patients. There is a “bait, then can’t switch” feature: the initial guarantee to purchase…
President Obama on trading off health policy for political victory
A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
…of a public option. My team and I thought a possible compromise might involve offering a public option only in those parts of the country where there were too few…
