…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…
New KFF polling on Medicare-for-all versus a public option
KFF Health Tracking Poll - September 2019
…a public option (“a government-administered health plan”), and Republicans are split. However, the public is confused as to whether Medicare-for-all and a public option are similar or different, and half…
A public option would perpetuate our highly dysfunctional financing system
…so much so that I believe it should be called the “Public Option 2.0.” The public option that Biden embraced would explicitly be part of Medicare, using Medicare’s provider network…
Kip Sullivan's letter to the Congressional Budget Office
…the CBO used to analyze the impact of the public plan (“public option”) in the Affordable Health Choices Act (drafted by the Senate health committee) and HR 3200 (drafted by…
Think twice when you hear the words ‘public option’ health insurance
…that’s 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…
Americans Support Single payer. Why Doesn't Celinda Lake?
…as evidence of widespread public opposition to single-payer, not mere preference for the more attractively worded GAC option. Here is an example from a speech by Roger Hickey, co-director of…
Americans Support Single payer. Why Doesn’t Celinda Lake?
…public opposition to single-payer, not mere preference for the more attractively worded GAC option. Here is an example from a speech by Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America’s…
Bipartisanship breaks down over “public option”
…structured market, or “exchange,” as it is called in the Massachusetts version of universal coverage… and also a “public option.” The subject of the public option came up frequently in…
Bipartisanship breaks down over "public option"
…structured market, or “exchange,” as it is called in the Massachusetts version of universal coverage… and also a “public option.” The subject of the public option came up frequently in…
Current Affairs: Why a ‘public option’ isn’t enough
Why a "Public Option" Isn't Enough
…to support public insurance has bought the concept that we can avoid disruption of the existing private health plans by the incremental addition of a public option – an optional…
A Government Takeover of Health Care, with Higher Costs, and even Worse Care??
…of the most effective attacks recently made on “public option” health care reform efforts. The response that is necessary concludes this essay. 1. The public option would mean a government…
Enough already!
…to the public option is held up as evidence of the wisdom of the public option: The fierce and continuing opposition of the insurance industry suggests that they think that…
