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“Public option”: kept alive by health control bill?
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!] The San Francisco Examiner reports: Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition … Continue reading
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Tagged crowd out, HR 3590, politician credibility, public option
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Michael Bennet’s lame support for “public option” via reconciliation
The Denver Post reports: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is pressing colleagues to use a procedural tool known as reconciliation to pass health-reform legislation — and to include the controversial public-insurance option in the bill. … “Much of the public identifies … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, Michael Bennet, politics of health care, public option
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Joe Lieberman on the public health plan
“It doesn’t help one poor person get insurance who doesn’t have it now. It doesn’t compel one insurance company to provide insurance to somebody who has an illness. And . . . it doesn’t do anything to reduce the cost … Continue reading
Public health plan: if it were a basketball game
Both the House and Senate care bills include a new government-run health plan. (See the Wall Street Journal‘s comparison.) In June I wrote the following: Supporters of the “public insurance option,” that is, government-run insurance that competes with commercial insurers … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, Harry Reid, health care video, HR 3962, public option
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If government has a “public option” for cable TV
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) Similar Posts: Public health plan: if it were a basketball game “Public option”: … Continue reading
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Tagged health care video, humor, Public Health Plan, public option, rationing health care
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“Opting out” of the “public option”
The Wall Street Journal reported last week: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, stepping deeper into the health-care debate, put his weight Thursday behind a proposal that would create a new government-run insurance plan while giving states the option not to … Continue reading
Maine’s “public option” has failed
From the Wall Street Journal: First the legislature greatly expanded MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program. Today Maine families with incomes of up to $44,000 a year are eligible; 22% of the population is now in Medicaid, roughly twice the national … Continue reading
Non-profit health insurance already dominates market
John Lott makes excellent points (emphasis added): Given all the attacks on profit-making insurance companies, what is possibly more surprising is that by far the dominant players in the “full” insurance market are non-profits. Indeed, one of the motives of … Continue reading
Make Congress enroll in “public option”
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 … Continue reading
Barney Frank: “public option” is “best way to reach single payer”
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 … Continue reading