…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…
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…
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….
Public option leads nosedive on reform
Bait and switch: How the "public option" was sold
…For reform advocates, the full article is a “must read:” https://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-“public-option”-was-sold/ Comment: By Don McCanne, MD What a mess. The progressive community has really blown it. The decision was to…
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…
What would a public option do to ACA marketplaces?
Assessing the Impact of a Public Option on Market Stability and Consumer Choice
…private plans, the public option might be open to all current Medicare providers, which constitute most of our health care delivery system. Also they expect premiums for the public option…
