1.0 link 216070 <![CDATA[Four Reasons Why Giving Consumers the Choice of a Public Health Insurance Plan Is Great Politics for Democrats]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/four-reasons-why-giving-c_b_216070.html The private health insurance industry and its voices in Congress have begun to spin the narrative that offering consumers a choice of a public health insurance plan is:

a) Never going to pass Congress;
b) A fringe proposal by the Democratic Party's "left wing;"
c) Is generally bad politics for Democrats.

This narrative is flat wrong. In fact, offering consumers the choice of a public health insurance plan as part of health care reform is great politics for Democrats of all stripes,...

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