Public Health Insurance

Growing Momentum for Public Option

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Creamer

With just 2 votes short of passage Tuesday, the odds are now very high that some form of public health insurance option will be included on the final reform bill.

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Americans Back Public Health Care, New Polls Reaffirm

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two new polls show that Americans support health care reform, but they're concerned about costs. Quinnipiac found that 69 percent of voters nationwid...

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The Hippocratic Oath And Health Care Reform

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raymond J. Learsy

This letter speaks eloquently to an issue critical to the administration and the conduct of our society.

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A Public Health Insurance Plan Can Cover All of Our Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marian Wright Edelman

A public health insurance plan option would encourage competition on the basis of cost and quality, not by avoiding the sick and denying care, as is the current practice.

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