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.
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i wish voters would contact congresspersons to let them know how vital these arguments are for achieving any health care reform which actually is reform