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Published: 10/29/09

CBO: Public Option Premiums Pricier Than Private Insuance in House Plan

By  Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily
CBO: Public Option Premiums Pricier Than Private Insuance in House Plan

We've already thrown 2,000 pages of health care bill reading at you today, but we want to call your attention to one important paragraph in the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the House Democrats' plan that was unveiled Thursday. Here is the CBO analysis of premiums under the House plan (our emphasis added): That estimate of enrollment reflects CBO's assessment that a public plan paying negotiated rates would attract a broad network of providers but would typically have premiums that are somewhat higher than the average premiums for the private plans in the exchanges. The rates ...

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Published: 09/9/09

Obama's Health Care Speech: His Last, Best Hope

By  Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily
Obama's Health Care Speech: His Last, Best Hope

Sixteen years ago this month, a youthful Democratic president with a job-approval rating hovering around 50 percent stood before Congress to make an impassioned plea for health care reform. As Bill Clinton mounted the rostrum and looked out over the House chamber, he discovered to his horror that a seven-month-old speech on the economy was whirling through the teleprompter instead of the health care text. For the next seven minutes, until the correct floppy disk was inserted into the teleprompter, Clinton confidently vamped before Congress and the nation as if all were going rhetorically ...

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