Ezra Klein on the House health care reform bill
(Blog Post)
So what exactly did the House put out this morning? Is it the Robust opt-out Public Option that Sen. Reid talked about?
Ezra Klein: No. So to do a bit on defining terms here:
Robust refers to a public option that can use Medicare's payment rates. That would let the public option save 20-30 percent against private insurance. Neither the House nor the Senate includes such an option.
The House bill has a national public option that ...
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