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Report: Public Option Added to Private Plans Could Slow Health Costs
National News • June 25, 2009
A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy ...
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| Lfkxzpym | Lfkxzpym | Jul 14, 2009, 8:02 am |
| error in article? | Barbara | Jul 11, 2009, 11:52 am |
| Lessons from Hawaii | Actuary | Jun 26, 2009, 9:15 pm |
| Healthcare reform | Ken | Jun 26, 2009, 8:43 pm |
| RE: Savings? At who's expense? | poster bored | Jun 26, 2009, 3:48 pm |
| RE: Savings? At who's expense? | Mike | Jun 26, 2009, 2:38 pm |
| Savings? At who's expense? | PETE | Jun 26, 2009, 10:22 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: Another Pro-Socialist Organization - correct | Tired in Texas | Jun 26, 2009, 9:47 am |
| Correction of Correction of Bill | Bill | Jun 26, 2009, 9:33 am |
| RE: I can't believe what I'm reading | Gill Fin | Jun 25, 2009, 5:44 pm |
| I can't believe what I'm reading | Cato Younger | Jun 25, 2009, 4:28 pm |
| Some questions for the public option advocates | Gill Fin | Jun 25, 2009, 3:26 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Another Pro-Socialist Organization - correction | Just a thought... | Jun 25, 2009, 3:17 pm |
| RE: RE: Another Pro-Socialist Organization - correction to B | Tired in Texas | Jun 25, 2009, 2:33 pm |
| RE: Another Pro-Socialist Organization - correction to Bill | David | Jun 25, 2009, 2:11 pm |
| RE: What kind of glasses are these people wearing? | Bill | Jun 25, 2009, 2:01 pm |
| Healthcare | Viva Tejas | Jun 25, 2009, 1:59 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: Healthcare | D | Jun 25, 2009, 1:58 pm |
| What kind of glasses are these people wearing? | James Stewart | Jun 25, 2009, 1:56 pm |
| Another Pro-Socialist Organization | Bill | Jun 25, 2009, 1:54 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Healthcare | Satisfied | Jun 25, 2009, 1:46 pm |
| RE: RE: Healthcare | D | Jun 25, 2009, 1:44 pm |
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| RE: Isn't Medicare cost subsidized by taxes? | Tired in Texas | Jun 25, 2009, 12:43 pm |
| This is news? | Actuary | Jun 25, 2009, 12:39 pm |
| Isn't Medicare cost subsidized by taxes? | Larry Cappleman | Jun 25, 2009, 12:36 pm |
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Subject: Lessons from Hawaii
The state provided a subsidized "public option" to "compete" with private insurers.
Families quickly decided that they'd rather be a subsidizee than a subsidizer, so they flocked to the government plan.
Costs of the government plan skyrocketed, and there were no longer enough subsidizers to support the plan, so the plan folded.
It's not competition when the government weighs in with a subsidized plan. This is not news to Obama & co. They really want universal health care, but speaking the language of free markets and competition is the only way to convince the public to buy in. Fortunately, the public seems to be smarter than they counted on.