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Nadler comes out for public option
From The Hill via Facebook, Jerry Nadler's argument for a robust, immediately available public health plan.
Today, the road to refocusing our misguided healthcare approach to put patients and doctors, not corporate bottom lines, at the forefront, and ensuring that all of us have access to the health services we need for a price we can afford, runs through a robust and competitive public health insurance option.
The public option must be robust and competitive, and incorporate, at a minimum, the following principles:
• Effective immediately. The public health insurance option cannot merely be a “fallback,” a “trigger,” or some other dubiously named mechanism out in the future. A trigger proposal, like the one in Medicare Part D, will do nothing more than ensure that the public option never happens.
Copyright precludes us from posting the complete piece, but go read the whole thing. If Congress passes anything like this, this country will finally move up from having a worse Healthcare system than, say, Costa Rica.
