No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible

Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – cooperatives, state or regional plans, a “trigger” for the public plan, a public plan prohibited from bargaining with drug companies – such profoundly bad ideas?
For one simple reason: they would fail to rein in health care costs’ out-of-control growth rate. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 30, 2009

Cryan combines economic theory with political calculation in arguing credibly for the public option in health care. He writes a little more scholarly than a journalist, but he provides good logic and data.

any dream of “restoring” robust competition to health insurance and health care provider markets through improved rule-setting and rule-enforcing government action alone is just that: a dream.

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