Reviving an option

Our view: The need to ensure the availability of affordable health care insurance is too great to declare the public option dead on arrival, despite the Senate's misgivings

As discouraging as it was to watch certain members of the Senate Finance Committee treat the concept of affordable health insurance coverage as America's own Bolshevik Revolution last week, hope for a modicum of common sense in the U.S. Congress springs eternal. The battle over the public option isn't over yet, as there is at least one more card to play.

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already promised, no matter what comes out of the full ... Full Story »

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Peter Henry
3.3
by Peter Henry - Oct. 4, 2009

The best thing about this piece is the point that Social Security and Medicare (aka "public option") are hardly considered controversial, especially by the tens of millions of people who depend on it. The silliest part is the argument in favor of a "trigger" so the government option won't be implemented until the insurance companies misbehave. Huh? How long are we supposed to wait?

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