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gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 6/5/2009
What's the point of a public option?
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In the national debate over health insurance reform, a key issue is whether the government should offer a "public plan" to compete with private insurers. For example, in today's NY Times, Paul Krugman writes , What’s still not settled, however, is whether regulation will be supplemented by ...
econlog.econlib.org - 6/9/2009
The Purpose of the Public Health Insurance Plan
— econlog.econlib.org — (June 9, 2009 05:26 AM, by Arnold Kling) Ezra Klein writes, The inclusion of a strong public... insurance option has become, for most observers I know, the single most recognizable marker for victory. If the public plan exists, liberals have won. If it's ... (more) The Purpose of the Public Health Insurance Plan

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economistsview.typepad.com - 6/7/2009
Public Option Smokescreens
— economistsview.typepad.com — <p>HTML clipboard</p> Robert Reich says the public option is slipping away: The Public Option, Smokescreens, Olympia Snowe,... and What You Need to Do Right Now, by Robert Reich : I'ved poked around Washington today, talking with ... (more) Public Option Smokescreens

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Three especially worthwhile posts
Marginal Revolution — 1. Angus on how long referees should be given. 2. Greg Mankiw on the "public health insurance plan" option. 3. Megan McArdle on the medical bankruptcy study.

Friday's Daily News
Club for Growth — THE DAILY NEWS Recall Stimulus, De-TARP, and Set the Fed Free - Larry Kudlow, Money Politcs Club for Growth Slams Crist Again - Adam Smith, TampaBay.com The Problem with Bailouts - Edward Glaeser, Boston Globe What's the Point of a Public Option? - Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog Pelosi's Pork Problem - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal Card-Check Threat Alive And Well - IBD Editorial How to Tackle `Buy America' - Toronto Star Editorial ...

What's the Point of the "Public Option?"
Club for Growth — ... Okay, yes it is in the Daily News below. But Greg Mankiw's blog post about President Obama's "public option" for health care insurance is worth highlighting. ...

Scrivener.net — ... How the "public option" government health plan to be included in Obama's national health care proposal, purportedly simply as an extra free choice option for consumers, is likely to be a camel's snout sneaking forward through tent in the dark of night with a knife in its mouth to murder private sector health care in its bed, explained by Greg Mankiw. ...

Don’t We Already Know the Answer to this Question
Coyote Blog — ... Greg Mankiw writes about a Paul Krugman article on “the public option,” a plan in Congress to provide a federal health insurance plan to compete with private plans and “keep them honest”** ...

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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 10/9/2009 — At first blush, it sounds good.
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voices.washingtonpost.com 10/31/2009 — I agree that there is a looming disaster in the form of a costly, taxpayer-funded bailout of a bankrupt public option. "[T]he public option will be given more money if it ends up with bad risks" and such bad risks will indeed be guided to a public ...
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