By: Golda Flieller

Golda Flieller — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:39:46 +0000

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By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:26:56 +0000

Argh! The hypocrisy drives me crazy. I wish Obama would take a look at the HCFA plan because I think it's a good transition to public healthcare. Health Care for America is put together by the political scientist Jacob Hacker with the support of the Economic Policy Institute. I’d suggest reading Thinking Big for a better summary of the plan, but the basic idea is that employers pay money into a public fund, enough to cover their workers. The public fund gives quality coverage including preventive care. Workers either keep insurance, choose a different private plan, or join a public health insurance plan without a private insurer middleman, and pick their providers and doctors. If it's too much for employers to provide the coverage the law requires they enroll their workers in the public plan at a modest cost. HCFA and Medicare would function as a single nationwide insurance pool covering around half the population. So ... either the public plan attracts most Americans, and our system evolves into single-payer OR because the floor prevents a race to the bottom, the public-private competition raises the bar on care, cuts costs, even in the private insurance plans. The standards would have to be kept by a strong government watchdog.

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