…comment by Don McCanne, MD: The brouhaha over the public option is more than just symbolic. The accusation is correct: the public option was perceived as a means to move…
The American College of Physicians’ Endorsement of Single-Payer Reform: A Sea Change for the Medical Profession
…unprofitably ill seniors can, and do, pull out of entire counties, an option unavailable to their public option competitor. Private insurers have turned traditional Medicare (like the ACA’s CO-OPs) into…
Second-Largest Doctor Group Endorses National Health Insurance (Of Some Kind)
Internal medicine association signals it would support either āMedicare for Allā or a strong public option.
…for All is a huge deal — even if they also endorsed another option,” Gaffney said. ACP’s support of both Medicare for All and strong public option reforms comes with…
Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United StatesāIf We Let It
…in the public sector were cut back and, if possible, privatized. Overall government budgets for public-sector health care were reduced. Private corporations gained access to public trust funds. Public hospitals…
Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force fails to unify on Medicare for All
Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations
…choice to select a high-quality, affordable public option through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The public option will provide at least one plan choice without deductibles, will be administered by…
Why we must vote on the public health care plan
…and Senate — quickly decry the scurrilous charge and concoct legislative language to make their public option look less, well, public. By conceding that the public option would have less…
Why we must vote on the public plan
…and Senate — quickly decry the scurrilous charge and concoct legislative language to make their public option look less, well, public. By conceding that the public option would have less…
INTERVIEW: Dr. Andy Coates
Selling out health care reform
…continue, for ourselves and our families, with increased out-of-pocket costs, new mandatory premium payments and ongoing medical bankruptcies, will remain acute. What about the so-called public option? What impact will…
Americans prefer public option to single payer
…the public exchanges. Thus the insurance industry gets precisely what it wants with the debate being limited to how much damage can be done to the free-standing public option, public…
Obama on Obamacare
…entirely inadequate — but his return to a public option has received by far the most attention. Regardless of how one feels about the public option in theory, it’s worth…
What can we learn from Kamala Harris’ position on private insurance?
…addition to having available a guaranteed public plan – Medicare for All. The media have latched onto this preference for having the option to choose a private plan, but some…
Fooled by the public option debate
…feedback from you, my constituents. An overwhelming number of you oppose a government-run health insurance option and it is your feedback that has led me to oppose the public option…
