June 19, 2009
Top of the morning
Most of the current debate about national health care reform is over President Obama’s proposal to make a public plan one of the options for consumers.
That doesn’t sit too well with many interests in the health care-industrial complex. The right-wing pundits hate it too, and reportedly a Senator from North Carolina is holding up its consideration.
What about the American people? The June Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that 65 percent of Americans support
Creating a public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans
Only 29 percent oppose offering the choice of a public plan.
The American people seem pretty clear about what they want. The question of course, is will the politicians listen to them or the battalion of lobbyists from the health care industry?
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Contact Hagan here. Be nice.
It is interesting that more (75%) of those participating in the KFF poll favored expanding Medicare to cover people between
the ages of 55 and 64 who do not have health
insurance, than those supported creating a new “public option” program, which hasnt been adequately described by its proponents.
the language of Conyer’s H.R. 676 (Medicare for all) is more precise than this still nebulous “public option”.
more details of the ‘public plan’ are emerging….details at the Energy/Commerce committee’s website….pay close attention to the nebulous abstractions such as the health insurance ‘exchange’.
details please guys
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