Paul Hsieh, M.D. explains in the Daily Camera (Boulder). Here are the opening paragraphs:
Boulder`s Congressman Jared Polis recently made national headlines when he and fellow first-term Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) teamed up to petition the U.S. Senate to include the so-called "public option" in its next version of health care ...
Writes Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has announced that he has reached a super secret compromise on how to deal with the so-called public option for health reform." Instead of a public option, "Congress would establish a program similar to the Federal Employees ...
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest made a clever and to-the-point video showing how a "public option" would play out:
(Via FIRM, State House Call)
Related post: Congress & gov’t employees would be exempt from new insurance mandates.
Senator David Vitter (R-La) argues that Congress should enroll in any government-run health plan they want to impose on U.S. citizens:
I’ve joined together with Rep. John Fleming, R-Minden, to apply pressure to the Washington politicians by requiring members ...
Insurance companies are unpopular, so they don't get much sympathy when arguing that the "public option" is unfair competition. The insurance industry should come clean by admitting how much the tax exemption for employer-provided insurance coddles them, which gives them an unfair competitive advantage. It shields insurance companies from competition ...
Representative Barney Frank says it 30 seconds into this video:
Remember what single payer medicine means: government is, by definition, the single and only entity that pays for medical care. All physicians and providers of medical care would essentially work for the government, and be accountable to government. If you want ...
The Democrats' proposals would "reform" nothing. Instead, they would entrench problems with the status quo, as economist Arnold Kling explains in "The Non-Debate over Non-Reform."
Consider the country's total health care spending. Patients' out-of-pocket spending accounts for only about 10 percent. Insurers and government split the remaining 90 percent almost evenly. ...
Cato Institute scholars pick apart the President's claims from the June 24 ABC news show, "Questions for the President: Prescription for America."
For more, see healthcare.cato.org.
[Via John LaPlante]
If a government [health insurance] program were to be stripped of any special advantages it would cease to be a government program. It would be just another private insurer. Take away the violence and intimidation, and Tony Soprano is just an eccentric and earthy businessman. - Michael Cannon, Cato Institute
Here's ...
According to the USA Today, president Obama said the government-run & tax-subsidized "public health insurance option" would "keep insurance companies honest." He's not talking about fraud and current laws against it. The idea here, I suppose, is that competition would keep insurance companies honest, as people could opt for ...
