…not what would happen with a public option, and the difference is all-important. We could spend the next few years passing a public option and then wait several more years…
Germany's painful lesson on private insurance
Many seek to switch to public health insurance
…AOK in Rheinland/Hamburg, told the magazine. The AOK, with 15 regional branches and some 24 million members, is Germany’s largest public health insurance organisation. The magazine said other public health…
So, where does health care reform fit in all of this?
With New Majority, Here’s What Democrats Can (and Can’t) Do on Health Care
…public option President-elect Biden included a public health insurance option, available to all Americans, in his 2020 campaign platform. The slim majority in the Senate, however, may make it hard…
Financing a single-payer national health program
…conducted our literature search between June 1 and December 31, 2018, without start date restriction for included studies. We surveyed an expert panel and searched PubMed, Google, Google Scholar, and…
Public Option Fades From Debate Over Health Care
…tactical concessions, to abate public wrath, but they were well received in Congress. While making these offers, the industry conserved its resources for the bigger battle over a public option….
Why the “Public Option” Cannot Work (and Single Payer Can)
Single payer gets rid of expensive middlemen/health insurance companies but leaves our current healthcare providers in place – however, with more freedom to deliver care.
…however, with more freedom to deliver care. The Public Option might seem like an attractive “middle ground” fix for our broken system of paying for health care. The Public Option,…
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#5 of 6)
…the “public option” would attract a real progressive constituency… The rest is history. Following Edwards’ lead, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton picked up on the public option compromise. So what…
Is Hillary Clinton’s Medicare buy-in proposal a step towards single payer?
…private insurance industry holds sway over Congress. Further, the public option fails to capture most of the efficiencies and savings of the single payer model. The public option would be…
Is Hillary Clinton’s Medicare buy-in proposal a step towards single payer?
…Congress. Further, the public option fails to capture most of the efficiencies and savings of the single payer model. The public option would be only one more player in our…
On the status of health reform
…rescinding policies for reasons other than nonpayment of premiums (often the allegation of failing to disclose a pre-existing condition.) “Public option” posturing The “public option” refers to an idea that…
Hacker says that public option/private exchange would EXPAND private insurance market
…public option would be a superior product made more affordable by reducing administrative inefficiencies. They contend that competition would motivate a massive shift to the public option, bringing us much…
House Tri-Committee public option
The House Tri-Committee Health Reform Draft
…public option proposals, is that it would use lower Medicare-based rates for the first three years, enabling the public option to displace some higher-premium private plans within the insurance exchange….
