…Project (ITUP) entitled “Exploring Public Option in California,” highlights the issues and options related to public option. The issue brief defined public option as a publicly operated health plan choice…
Part 6: Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all
…explanation that makes sense is that Stern and other Herndon Alliance leaders had decided earlier (probably in 2005) to substitute the “public option” for single-payer; they had already anticipated that…
The Democrats' Authoritarian Health "Reform" Bill and the Ascendency of Corporatism in the Democratic Party
…public option as an acceptable compromise in the context of a larger health insurance mandate. For many of these progressive liberals, the idea of the public option, at least at…
The Democrats’ Authoritarian Health “Reform” Bill and the Ascendency of Corporatism in the Democratic Party
…public option as an acceptable compromise in the context of a larger health insurance mandate. For many of these progressive liberals, the idea of the public option, at least at…
Don't Be Fooled by the Public Option
…the public option. The fight over the public option has occupied much of the media coverage, but left unsaid is the fact that weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations have weakened the…
Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option
…the public option. The fight over the public option has occupied much of the media coverage, but left unsaid is the fact that weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations have weakened the…
Bipartisanship breaks down over "public option"
The Public Plan Option: Bipartisanship, Or Fear And Loathing?
…the Massachusetts version of universal coverage… and also a “public option.” The subject of the public option came up frequently in the course of the Feb. 2-3 National Health Policy…
Joe Biden Missed His Golden Opportunity to Attack the Pandemic
One of the best ways Joe Biden could have attacked the pandemic and boosted the US's vaccination rate would have been to fight for Medicare for All, or at least a public option. He refused to do so.
…the current private health insurance-based system. Public option proposals at the state level, meanwhile, have also come up against stiff opposition. When Washington state passed its public option plan in…
President Obama on trading off health policy for political victory
A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
…of a public option. My team and I thought a possible compromise might involve offering a public option only in those parts of the country where there were too few…
Let’s Not Mourn the Death of the Public Option
…insurers can cherry-pick healthier Americans through seemingly more favorable plans (while they are healthy), then the public option could become overly burdened and unsustainable. In addition, a public option would…
The challenges of a Medicare public option for the private insurance market
How a Medicare Buy-In or Public Option Could Threaten Obamacare
…plan and argues there is a way to design a public option that does not shut out the private insurers. “It’s all about threading the needle of making a public…
Single-payers crashing the gates
…purchasing power, would collapse amidst a fiery congressional storm over the cost of the public option, thus legitimizing arguments that publicly funded health care is a failed idea. Which begs…
