nytimes.com - 8/23/2009
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TWO burning questions are at the center of America’s health care debate. First, should employers be required to pay for their employees’ health insurance? And second, should there be a “public option” that competes with private insurance? Answers might be found in San Francisco, where ambitious ...
nytimes.com - 8/16/2009
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nytimes.com —
WE clearly don’t need any more distractions from
the two main issues of health care reform :
how to deal with our large uninsured population and how to make the entire system more cost effective. So, for now, let’s ignore the shouted rhetoric about ...
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Economic View - The Public Option - A Distraction in ...
nytimes.com - 8/21/2009
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According to news reports, the Obama administration
which seemed, over the weekend, to be backing away
from the “public option” for health insurance is shocked and surprised at the furious reaction from progressives. Well, I’m shocked and ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s Trust Problem
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... Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World - washingtonpost.com
A Public Option That Works - NYTimes.com ...
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The Baseline Scenario —
... Dube also co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times on San Francisco’s experience with comprehensive, government-mandated health insurance. One of their points is that in an environment where all competitors are forced to pay something for health insurance, this creates a level playing field where all companies can pass on the higher costs to consumers – as opposed to a situation where companies race to the bottom by cutting benefits in order to minimize costs. ...
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