…also shelling out megabucks for a publicity blitz and ads attacking Obama’s public plan or any health care reform that threatens to reduce the profits from sickness and disease. TV…
David Cutler on ten ideas to bend the cost curve
…of a junk food tax or tax on sugar sweetened beverages. Grade: Partial credit. • Create a public option. A public insurance option would provide competition for insurers in areas…
The Prescription From Obama’s Own Doctor
…the A.M.A. The student association declared that it “not only supports but insists upon a public health insurance option.” Look, a public option is no panacea, and it won’t automatically…
Krugman redefines ‘Medicare for all,’ but gets it wrong
Radical Democrats Are Pretty Reasonable
…allowing individuals and employers to buy into Medicare as a public option, then we know that the political campaigns are corrupted with deceptions. How can we get the public to…
What a single-payer health insurance plan looks like
…too, that when President Obama was stickhandling his health care legislation, which—at the time, he was still supporting public option, eventually gave up on that. But as part of the…
Bailout under a blue cross
…of the $400 billion savings available through a single-payer program, even if half of the privately insured were to switch to a public option. In addition, our experience with Medicare…
Single Payer: A Conversation with David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
…behaviors confer a decisive competitive advantage. A public plan option would either emulate them — becoming a clone of private insurance — or go under. A kinder, gentler public plan…
Himmelstein and Woolhandler on a public plan option
Public Plan Option in a Market of Private Plans
By David Himmelstein, M.D. and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.: The “public plan option” won’t work to fix the health care system for two reasons. 1. It forgoes at least 84…
The Facts About the Health Insurance Industry
…insurance industry has been created by us, is hugely subsidized by public policy and public money and is expensive, inefficient, costly , and a structural barrier to a healthy America….
Groups Urge State and Federal Officials to Make Health Care a Human Right by Adopting a Single Payer Health Care System
…being discussed in Congress, including the public option, would all fail to actually provide health care services to all Americans and would do little if anything to control costs. Single…
Medicare For All: The Social Transformation Of US Health Care
…is true whether we are talking about a public option, a Medicare option, Medicare buy-in, Medicare extra, or any other half-measure. The main reason is because of the savings that…
Massachusetts physicians prefer single payer over the Affordable Care Act
…plans, 77 percent prefer other options to a “public option,” and 96 percent prefer one of the listed options (including single payer) to any other undefined option that they might…
