Health Care's True Price | The American Prospect

Health-care wonks worth their salt will tell you that the big issue in the current effort to reform our abysmal health-care system is cost control. They say if we don't do something to rein in the spiraling cost of health-care, it will eventually bankrupt us all. This is also a key argument made by advocates of what has become the ideological fulcrum of the health-care reform debate: the public option. Those who want to give Americans the choice of a ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul 9, 2009 - 1:27 PM PDT
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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul. 9, 2009

An outstanding informative article on why the Public Option is needed.

I have always supported the public option. We have to slow the giant amounts of profits and lobby money that is currently being spent at the expense of giving American need health care. You need to read this if you feel sure that a public option is wrong- this may change your mind.

That’s all true. But for the most part, we haven’t heard the best argument for a public option: security. It’s what ought to be at the center of this ... More »

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