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Karen Ignagni responded on March 23, 09 07:38 AM
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Len Nichols responded on March 23, 09 07:39 AM
AdvertisementLet me be crystal clear: if the playing field is level, it is possible for public and private health insurance plans to compete in such a way that our citizens -enrollees and taxpayers...
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Paul B. Ginsburg responded on March 23, 09 10:17 AM
AdvertisementI am not sure if he intended it this way, but Len Nichols has contributed to the issue of whether a competing public plan is a good idea by forcing us to think about what is a public plan...
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Grace-Marie Turner responded on March 23, 09 11:01 AM
Advertisement Len Nichols says there would be a level playing field between a new government health plan and private plans if “all rules of the marketplace -- benefit package requirements, insurance...
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Celinda Lake responded on March 23, 09 12:27 PM
AdvertisementThe choice of a public helath insurance plan is critical to delivering the guarantee of affordable, quality health care to all Americans. This gurantees people a backup if they lose their...
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Stuart Butler responded on March 23, 09 01:31 PM
AdvertisementPaul Ginsburg has it right. The kind of “public plan” Len Nichols lays out is a public plan in name only. If it operates under exactly the same rules then in what sense is it a public...
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Uwe Reinhardt responded on March 23, 09 03:02 PM
Advertisement The debate over the role of a public health plan in the promised health reform is unlikely to be settled over the economic merits or demerits of the idea. It will be a purely...
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Karen Davis responded on March 23, 09 03:20 PM
Advertisement Providing Americans with the choice of enrolling in a public health insurance plan or in private plans is central to providing affordable coverage to all and increasing value in our...
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John Sheils responded on March 23, 09 05:08 PM
Advertisement Impact of an Illustrative Public Plan President Obama has proposed to create a “public plan” that would compete for business with the private insurance industry, but has provided few...
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Denis Cortese, M.D. responded on March 24, 09 09:31 AM
AdvertisementHealth care reform measures must include a mechanism for insuring all. However, no insurance requirement, public or private will work unless we simultaneously reform our payment system to...
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Marian Wright Edelman responded on March 24, 09 10:36 AM
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Jason Rosenbaum responded on March 24, 09 12:07 PM
AdvertisementI love that Ms. Turner and Ms. Ignagni believe that a public health insurance option, as proposed by President Obama and approved by the American people during the campaign (73% of voters...
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John C. Goodman responded on March 24, 09 05:35 PM
AdvertisementWhat can a public plan do that a private plan cannot do better? Since Medicare is run by Blue Cross almost everywhere, what is it that Blue Cross does for the government that it cannot do...
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Billy Tauzin responded on March 26, 09 11:04 AM
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James P. Gelfand responded on March 26, 09 11:24 AM
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Len Nichols responded on March 26, 09 12:24 PM
AdvertisementWhen John Bertko and I wrote our vision for a competing public insurance option, our goal was move the debate over a choice of a public health insurance plan past the rhetoric and toward a...
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Scott P. Serota responded on March 27, 09 05:43 PM
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Can Congress fashion a public health plan option so that it does not blow up health care reform this year? Nearly all Democratic health reform proposals would create a public health plan that would...
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