…private insurers walk away with the ingots. (NB: Do not assume that this message is a plea for a “robust” public option. Adding a robust option to our dysfunctional, fragmented…
Profusion of single payer responses to Supreme Court deliberations
…“public option” that was so controversial during the debates over the Affordable Care Act, or to move entirely to a single-payer system, eschewing markets. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2012/03/29/renee-landers-on-the-individual-mandate-towards-a-single-payer-system-or-public-option/ **** A stronger prescription for…
Exchanges, Co-Ops And Cop-Outs On Health Care Reform
…ensure that everyone can purchase quality, affordable health insurance coverage”. It would do so by creating a not-for-profit public option to compete with private insurers in an attempt to “keep…
Profusion of single payer responses to Supreme Court deliberations
…“public option” that was so controversial during the debates over the Affordable Care Act, or to move entirely to a single-payer system, eschewing markets. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2012/03/29/renee-landers-on-the-individual-mandate-towards-a-single-payer-system-or-public-option/ **** A stronger prescription for…
Important RAND study of single payer and other options for Oregon
…percent of poverty. Enrollees could purchase private supplemental insurance to cover cost sharing and additional benefits. The third proposal, a so-called public option, would create a state-run health plan to…
The public insurance option and AHIP's battle against it
…have made it very clear 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 public insurance option and AHIP’s battle against it
…once the doors close, they have made it very clear that a public option will never be approved. Hacker tells us why the public option is absolutely essential in the…
Grayson's "Public Option Act" or "Medicare You Can Buy Into Act"
Grayson Introduces Public Option Act
…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…
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…
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…
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…
