…of purchasing a government-sponsored plan through the proposed insurance exchanges – the so-called “public option.” Since Congressman Alan Grayson introduced the “Public Option Act” or “Medicare You Can Buy Into…
FAQs
…back to top Won’t a publicly financed system stifle medical research? No. Most groundbreaking research is publicly funded already. Most breakthrough research is already publicly financed through the National Institutes…
States in the Spotlight as Single-Payer Resurfaces in Mainstream Discourse
…private insurance payers to operate. In its report, the team recommended a so-called “public/private” non-single-payer option as the “most feasible because it is likely to be accepted by the broadest…
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#3 of 6)
…people have another option besides private health insurance or an HMO. Do you favor or oppose the creation of this type of public health plan option?” (64 percent said they…
CAP’s ‘Medicare Extra for All’ – What it really is
Beyond āObamacareā: New liberal plan on health care overhaul
…during the debate over Obamacare what was wrong with the public option. It bears repeating today: The “public plan option” won’t work to fix the health care system for two…
Gutting the Health Care Plan: The Scorpion and the Congress
…to tell the story, so the probably inevitable compromise works down from full public coverage, as opposed to considering options that gut even the option of serious public coverage entirely….
The public insurance option and AHIP's battle against it
The Case For Public Plan Choice In National Health Reform
…that a public option will never be approved. Hacker tells us why the public option is absolutely essential in the multi-payer model, but AHIP and the Republicans tell us that…
Fiscal Commission – “hastening the public option”
…Durbin (D-IL): We are hastening the day when the only option left will be a public option. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): I think Sen. Durbin probably said it right. We…
Fiscal Commission – “hastening the public option”
…the public option will be the only option. Why a public option? Apparently there is bipartisan agreement that a government insurance program would be more effective in slowing future health…
Conservativesā awful new Medicaid ploy: The Obamacare āprivate optionā
…privatization, co-pays, cutbacks in important benefits, and these silly “wellness” programs, the private option somehow manages to combine the worst aspects of “liberal” public health paternalism, neoliberal healthcare consumerism, and…
Fiscal Commission – "hastening the public option"
Final Report of National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
…option left will be a public option. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): I think Sen. Durbin probably said it right. We are hastening the day when the only option is the…
Oliver Fein, of Physicians for a National Health Program, at St. Kate's: Give single-payer a chance
…entirely. Private insurance companies have denounced the public option, fearing that they could not compete with a lower-cost public option plan. Both Fein and Frost assert that single-payer has not…
