…brands have their own proposal: a “public option” that would preserve the current private insurance market, while giving people the opportunity to choose government insurance. A public option would be…
Health Reform and Social Justice: Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health Disparities
Presentation by Dr. Susan Rogers
…any kind of health reform, Public Option, anything? How would that be able to be change, do you think? Dr. Rogers: If we got rid of the for-profit system, there…
Do Not Resuscitate the ‘Public Option’
…the “public option” is mistaken and futile. Once upon a time, proponents of the “public plan option” sought a “Medicare-like” program that might enroll every other person in the nation…
Do Not Resuscitate the 'Public Option'
…the “public option” is mistaken and futile. Once upon a time, proponents of the “public plan option” sought a “Medicare-like” program that might enroll every other person in the nation…
Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid
A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs
…§ 17b-261m at https://codes.findlaw.com/ct/title-17b-social-services/ct-gen-st-sect-17b-261m/ Congressional Budget Office. (2025, May 7). Estimates for Medicaid policy options and state responses [PDF]. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61377 Ives-Rublee, M. (2025, May 16). Federal Medicaid cuts would force…
It’s back – H.R. 5808 – the public option
…closer at this option, we can see that the great tragedy of the public option debate was that this almost worthless proposal diverted our attention away from the debate that…
It's back – H.R. 5808 – the public option
…who would no longer have employer-sponsored coverage. Enacting the public option will produce no net gain in the numbers of individuals insured. CBO estimates that premiums for the public option…
It’s back – H.R. 5808 – the public option
…who would no longer have employer-sponsored coverage. Enacting the public option will produce no net gain in the numbers of individuals insured. CBO estimates that premiums for the public option…
Hillary’s Public Option Proposal: Could It Work?
…put together in 2008 and 2009, the public option was conceived as a way to inject more competition into the health insurance industry. As a not-for-profit option on the exchanges,…
Democrats’ hype about health care reform will hurt them
…is impossible to know what Obama and the vast majority of “public option” advocates think about these issues because there is no “public option” proposal or bill to discuss. There…
Robert Reich supports Medicare for all, but…
…that would alter the concerns about the public option expressed by David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler and others of us at PNHP. At the time the public option was being…
It's back – H.R. 5808 – the public option
H.R. 5808 - To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish a public health insurance option.
…created so much controversy during the reform process. As we look closer at this option, we can see that the great tragedy of the public option debate was that this…
