…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…
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…
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…
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…
Public option leads nosedive on reform
…public or private. But today “public option” advocates sing the praises of tiny “public options” contained in congressional legislation sponsored by leading Democrats that bear no resemblance to the original…
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…
More of the Same Is Not Health Care Reform, It’s a Placebo
…through their employer are not permitted to access the exchange or the public option. The “public option” must be self-sustaining and follow the same rules as private insurers. Once set…
More of the Same Is Not Health Care Reform, It's a Placebo
…through their employer are not permitted to access the exchange or the public option. The “public option” must be self-sustaining and follow the same rules as private insurers. Once set…
Not Change We Can Believe In
…the public option, by being just an option, will be deprived of the greatest strengths of social insurance: 1. risk pooling, which assures sustainability and lowest costs, and 2) cooperative…
The Policy That Dare Not Speak Its Name
…picked up one Republican vote by supporting the present system plus a public option? Hardly. The current House leadership bill, offering a mixed system, with a robust public option, a…
The public is confused about Medicare for All and the public option
Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare Coverage
…ten Republicans, for a government-run health plan, sometimes called a public option (Figure 14). Notably, the public does not perceive major differences in how a public option or a Medicare-for-all…
