The health insurers stumble into an argument for a public option.

Slate by Timothy Noah | Oct. 14, 2009 (News Analysis)

Health reform cleared the Senate finance committee, 14-9, without a public option. Now the trick is figuring out how to put it back in. One powerful argument for doing so comes from an unlikely source: the private health-insurance lobby. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 15, 2009

An excellent, detailed analysis of Price Waterhouse Cooper’s report about what happens to health insurance premiums in the off-chance healthcare reform becomes reality. Except the report ends up actually providing an intelligent argument--not against reform, its orginal intention--but FOR the public option. Wups! (My kind of journalism.)

Price Waterhouse’s argument: with healthcare reform, insurance premiums will rise 32%; but kill reform and premiums shoot up 79%. Way to go, guys!

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