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The Public Option

Health Care on Life Support

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 12.04.2011 | Books
Read More: Individual Mandates, Social Welfare Policies, The Affordable Care Act, The Policy Trap, Universal Healthcare, The Public Option, Obamacare, Books News
Glenn C. Altschuler

A liberal United States Senator, let's call him Edward M. Kennedy, dies. When he gets to heaven, he asks God, "Will America ever have national health insurance?" "Yes," the Lord replies, "but not in my lifetime."

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The Public Option

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 09.11.2011 | Books
Read More: Developed Countries, The Social Safety Net, Developing Countries, Government Regulation, Tax Increases, Free Market Economies, The Public Option, ?€œGovernment Is the Problem?, Books News
Glenn C. Altschuler

Let's be clear. What Americans need least is what they are now getting: trash talk about government as "the problem" and a claim now inflated to infallibility by Republican zealots that tax increases never -- ever -- promote the common good.

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Health Care Reform: Some Optimism Please

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama and Health Care, Rationing of Service, The Public Option, Civil-Rights-Act-of-1964, Right Wing Conspiracy, Hillary Clinton, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
SaraKay Smullens

Health care costs are rising fast and are the largest cause of personal bankruptcies. Our life expectancy is lower than most industrialized countries, but our health care costs more than any of them.

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The Public Option, Who Makes Decisions to Treat Us, and Tort Reform

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bureaucrats, Healthcare Decisionmaking, Tort Reform, The Public Option, Supreme Court, Medical Malpractice, Rep. Mark Kirk, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Obama Health Care, Health Care Myths, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

We are not in a room crafting health care legislation, so we have to rely on the words of those we elected to public office to truthfully tell us what they say, and how which bill will best benefit our lives.

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Reform With and Without a Public Option

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, The Public Option, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Stephen M. Davidson

It is important to understand what we will get -- and won't get -- if a bill passes without a public option.

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What's So Great About Private Health Insurance: LA Times Columnist

Los Angeles Times | Michael Hiltzik | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Why Private Insurance, Public Option, The Public Option, Why Protection the Private Option, Politics News

Throughout the heroic struggle in Congress to provide a "public option" in health insurance, one question never seems to get answered: Why are we so i...

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