Public Option

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Published: 10/15/10

ObamaCare: Delayed Stratification

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Published: 10/6/10

Shiny, Happy Health Care Reform

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Published: 08/25/10

Psychotherapy: That'll Be $100,000. Sorry, No Warranty

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

My colleague Mary C. Curtis writes that Betty Draper has returned to the therapist office. "Mad Men" is set in the 1960s, and there's a good chance Draper's health insurance picked up 80 percent of that tab, if not the whole shebang. Ah, those were the days. Now, you're more likely to get three visits a year. That is, if you're still employed and even have insurance at all. With real unemployment soaring near levels last seen in the 1930s, I doubt people will be able to pay the premiums offered by private companies. (Public Option, was it something I said?) My colleague Delia writes about ...

Published: 07/20/10

Democrats to Middle Class: Yes, We Can . . . Ignore You

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Published: 03/17/10

Opinion: Two Government Takeovers in One

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(March 17) -- Imagine a bill that dramatically increases the power of the federal government in Americans' lives. It expands the federal bureaucracy to administer a vital service. Democrats argue it will save money over time because the federal government is more efficient than the private sector -- yet the American people are suspicious of these claims. This legislation will require the federal Treasury to increase its borrowing from China and our other foreign creditors by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years. Terms like "public option" have been used to describe a ...

Published: 03/15/10

Liberals Claim 51 Votes for Public Option in Senate

By Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily

Three groups pushing for a public insurance option in health care reform--the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and Credo Action--launched a television ad Monday going after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not including a public option in the health care legislation being considered by the House this week. The ad, which will run on MSNBC, CNN and a local San Francisco affiliate, begins by saying, "Speaker Pelosi says the Senate lacks the votes for the public option," and then shows Arianna Huffington rightly stating that 41 senators have signed a letter circulated ...

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Published: 02/19/10

The Public Option: It's Baaack?!?

By Russell Berman - AOL News

WASHINGTON (Feb. 19) -- The public option is back. Again. Or is it? That's the question buzzing through the political blogosphere after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday night that the White House would support a renewed push for a government-run insurance option. No policy proposal has had a wilder roller-coaster ride in the Obama administration than the public option. It emerged as a central tenet of the comprehensive health care reform plan early on; Republicans then attacked it as a slippery first step to a single-payer nationalized health care system, ...

Published: 01/9/10

Public Option for Health Care Appears Doomed

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WASHINGTON (Jan. 9) -- Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats told President Barack Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws, officials said. That provision is in the House-passed measure, but was omitted from the bill that the Senate ...

Published: 01/5/10

Yanks, Brits and Politeness: Is America Really the Best?

By Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily

Well, Christine, thanks so much for your piece about American politeness, which I loved, as well as your link to Geoffrey Dyer's wonderful article in The New York Times -- "My American Friends" -- on which it was based. When you first mentioned that the Englishman Dyer finds Americans to be more polite than his British brethren, I very nearly spit out my (English Breakfast) tea. Upon closer inspection, however, I think there's a lot of truth in his cross-cultural analysis. ...