…consequence of the tendency of “option” advocates to describe the “option” as “just like Medicare” is that “public option” supporters and members of Congress have been lulled into thinking the…
The Senate HELP Committee “public option” will be multiple “options,” and these will be run by insurance companies
…Now (HCAN) and other “public option” proponents were ecstatic. They welcomed the “public option” in the HELP committee bill, proclaiming it “strong” or “robust.” But the actual provisions in the…
The CO-OP failure should be a lesson for a Medicare public option
Only three of 26 Obamacare-era nonprofit health insurance co-ops will soon remain
…is very little difference between the co-ops and the “public option” By Kip Sullivan, J.D. PNHP, September 29, 2009 Advocates of a “public option” have been extremely critical of the…
The “public option” and the wheelbarrow parable
…ruckus over the “option” but all the while supporting bailout legislation (with or without an “option”), the “option” campaign has fooled its followers and the public into thinking its highest…
Starr, Reich and Kuttner on the public option
…not include a public option. That’s exactly the wrong message. If progressives fail to work hard for a public option because it’s not a single-payer, or we allow the other…
Clinton’s ‘Public Option’ is a Diversion: We Need Single Payer, Medicare for All
By Don McCanne, M.D. Common Dreams, Feb. 24, 2016 You remember the public option. During the drafting of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), efforts were made to include a public…
Starr, Reich and Kuttner on the public option
Debating the Public Option
…public option, we miss the moment. Paul Starr: The public option has gotten all the political attention, but the real “crux” of reform is the system of rules that govern…
Why did the 'public option' fail? Jacob Hacker won’t say
By Kip Sullivan The campaign to create a “public option” ended in failure last March when Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with no “option” in it….
Why did the ‘public option’ fail? Jacob Hacker won’t say
By Kip Sullivan The campaign to create a “public option” ended in failure last March when Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with no “option” in it….
Dissenting opinion, Canadian Supreme Court decision
…of their claimed Quebec Charter rights to defeat the prohibition against private insurance would not have “proper regard for democratic values” or “public order”, as the future of a publicly…
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#4 of 6)
…to their workers through a new public program modeled after Medicare” or through the insurance industry, a proposal that would, by 2009, be called “the public option” for short. Hacker…
William Hsiao’s single payer proposal for Vermont
…in PPACA is grossly inadequate and needs to be replaced. The authors’ Option 2 is essentially PPACA with a “public option” added – a public insurance plan that competes with…
