…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 as…
The Public Option: Dead By Pen Strokes In Congressional Committees
…bill. The public option refers to a new public plan that would compete with private health insurers in an effort “to keep them honest”. It is a concept trumpeted by…
Battle over public option to private insurance plans
…will be bipartisan along with the adamant opposition of a public option by Ranking Member Charles Grassley. Having discarded other public insurance proposals such as single payer, even before the…
PNHP Newsletter: Fall 2021
…Report/Healthday, July 30, 2021 [Dr. Danny McCormick] “Minorities less likely to receive specialist care,” Reuters/Medscape, July 21, 2021 [Dr. Chris Cai] “Why Nevada’s modest public option bill is getting heavy…
Medicare buy-in?
…Medicare buy-in is that it is a trade-off to get the progressives to agree to abandoning the public option. So the agreement seems to be to eliminate the public option…
Medicare buy-in?
Harry Reid: Democrats reach 'broad agreement'
…buy-in is that it is a trade-off to get the progressives to agree to abandoning the public option. So the agreement seems to be to eliminate the public option from…
Uwe Reinhardt on the public option
Who Needs the Public Option?
…brouhaha over the public option is more than just symbolic. The accusation is correct: the public option was perceived as a means to move us toward single payer, while respecting…
Deductibles do not foster price shopping
…medical spending on average. During the switch, the in-network providers that consumers could access and the services covered remained the same. As a result, this switch presented an excellent opportunity…
The medical lobby is already peddling lies about Medicare-for-all
…be an enormous one-time switch where those people are transferred from their current plan onto Medicare (under the Sanders bill, actually several smaller switches as the program is gradually rolled…
Aggressive & Misleading Marketing of Medicare Advantage
…shopping at their local grocery store are approached by insurance agents and asked to switch their Medicare coverage or MA plan. Insurance agents selling new MA plans tell seniors that…
Battle over public option to private insurance plans
Health-Care Battle Set to Focus on Public Plan
…along with the adamant opposition of a public option by Ranking Member Charles Grassley. Having discarded other public insurance proposals such as single payer, even before the negotiations began, the…
New poll on single payer and a Medicare buy-in
…ACA. We have to keep in mind that the insurance industry was successful in changing the public option from a Medicare plan to a public plan that had most of…
