Health Care Reform for Beginners: The Many Flavors of the Public Plan

public insurance is simply more efficient. Medicare holds costs down better than private health insurance. The substantially public systems employed by every other industrialized nation cost less and cover more than the American model. So the question became how to marry the policy need for public insurance with the political need to preserve the status quo. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Jun. 9, 2009

A breakdown of public-vs-private health insurance for all of us. Favors a public model, but still highly informative, clear, honest.

The private insurance market is a mess. It’s supposed to cover the sick and instead competes to insure the well. It employs platoons of adjusters whose sole job is to get out of paying for needed health care services that members thought were covered.

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