…it is so important to have a national public option for windstorm and flood insurance while he vilifies and runs against a national public option for health insurance. Why does…
Health Care Jujitsu
…Medicare for all, or at least a public option. After all, Social Security and Medicare require every working American to “buy” them. The purchase happens automatically in the form of…
Bill Clinton Is Right, For-Profit Healthcare Is the ‘Craziest Thing in the World’
…said that “when people talk about the public option, they are acknowledging that it’s the public part of the program that’s working.” Clinton, she told Common Dreams, “seems to understand…
Why is Wyden supporting Ryan's Medicare voucher proposal?
A Bipartisan Way Forward on Medicare
…also expand health-care options for working Americans by giving smaller businesses the opportunity to empower their employees to make their own health-care choices. Under this “free choice option,” employees take…
Universal health care for New York?
…Schneiderman’s absence. “Let’s see whether a public option can compete with private insurance,” said Duane. “We believe a public option will be cheaper and more efficient and provide better health…
A Medicare lesson for Dick Armey
…was to establish the principle that individuals could decline Medicare completely and choose a private option (though in this case his private option was a government-sponsored private plan). Thi s…
Sec. Sebelius promotes consumer-directed health plans
Letter from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius replying to Republican governors
…market, many individuals and families have limited health insurance options available to them. The number and quality of options typically depend on applicants’ age and health status, and employees of…
In Vermont, historic opportunity is now
…of the three look good. One of them (the second, which is called the public option) is hardly in the running because effectively it will not achieve universal coverage. The…
Senate Judiciary testimony of Prof. Charles Fried on single payer
Hearing on the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
…debate in the Senate was between this device (the individual mandate) and something called the government option. And the government option was described as being something akin to socialism, and…
Responding to Anti-Universal Care Social Media
Health insurance industry opponents of universal coverage have invested heavily in social media to sow doubt about the benefits of health policies and to undermine public trust in government and evidence. Effective response requires understanding the public’s values and a multi-pronged communication strategy.
…to the detriment of public health. Like other campaigns by unhealthy commodity industries, PAHCF’s campaign is designed to increase doubt in the benefits of health policies, undermine public trust in…
Trump Abdicates US Leadership in Global Health
Trump again, as in his first term, withdrew the US from the World Health Organization. This action not only thumbs our nose (or flips our middle finger) at the world, it’s also short-sighted – ignoring selfish interests in pandemic control and other public health needs.
…Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the premier public health agencies in the world. In addition, state and local health departments add a further level of public health…
Two-thirds of voters support providing Medicare to every American
Poll: 69 percent of voters support Medicare for All
…among over four in ten Republicans, for a government-run health plan, sometimes called a public option. Notably, the public does not perceive major differences in how a public option or…
