…through their employer are not permitted to access the exchange or the public option. The “public option” must be self-sustaining and follow the same rules as private insurers. Once set…
Not Change We Can Believe In
…the public option, by being just an option, will be deprived of the greatest strengths of social insurance: 1. risk pooling, which assures sustainability and lowest costs, and 2) cooperative…
More of the Same Is Not Health Care Reform, It's a Placebo
…through their employer are not permitted to access the exchange or the public option. The “public option” must be self-sustaining and follow the same rules as private insurers. Once set…
The Policy That Dare Not Speak Its Name
…picked up one Republican vote by supporting the present system plus a public option? Hardly. The current House leadership bill, offering a mixed system, with a robust public option, a…
Tales of a Family Doc…..a year later
…the dialogue has shifted from advocacy of a single payer system to support for a public option. I have certainly written also in support of a public option. But it…
The public is confused about Medicare for All and the public option
Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare Coverage
…ten Republicans, for a government-run health plan, sometimes called a public option (Figure 14). Notably, the public does not perceive major differences in how a public option or a Medicare-for-all…
Will Health Care Reform 2010 Improve Access And Quality of Cancer Care?
…hospitals and higher coinsurance for Tier 4 chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy. (17) (Court, J. Insurance: you pay, they bait and switch. Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2002) More than…
Health Care, Essential to Democracy
Posted at MichaelMoore.com November 19th, 2009 Health Care, Essential to Democracy by Katie Robbins and Andy Coates Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer…
Medical bankruptcies will remain high under Obama health plan
…led to believe was going to be in the hopper. Was this kind of bait and switch? Himmelstein: I think it was and frankly, it’s what the Republicans are saying…
Barbara Ehrenreich: President Bush, Meet Lorraine
…of lying in terror in a hospital bed. Barbara Ehrenreich is a columnist for The Progressive. Her latest book is “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.”…
Where are we on reform? Part 2 (Hacker)
Health Reform Lessons from the Past
…mandate and an affordable public option cannot be met. Fundamental structural reform is essential. Unless the politicians are able to engage successfully in bait and switch strategies, the gridlock that…
Whistleblower reveals how insurers can game healthcare bill
…prevent the insurance industry from continuing its ongoing practice of increasingly shifting healthcare costs to consumers. A form of bait-and-switch, such practices often set up individuals, families and small businesses…
