How to explain the public option for healthcare reform, reprise

by: los anjalis

Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM PDT

Brilliant. Robert Reich explains the public option, in just over a minute (the rest of the video is important, but his explanation really just took over a minute).

Share this with friends and family, if folks still have questions about the public option.

Two weeks ago we posted a piece here at Cure This -- How to Explain the Public Option for Healthcare reform. Really -- featuring Chris Hayes, DC editor at The Nation magazine, discussing the public option. That post was the top search result on Google for "public option explanation" for quite a few days. Clearly, Americans are looking for ways to better comprehend the proposed public option and other pieces of the larger healthcare reform discussion. The number of hits on that search declined in the two to three days after President Obama's speech on healthcare reform last week. Perhaps his description of the public option, among other pieces of his proposal, answered many Americans' questions.

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Not an accurate description of the PO (0.00 / 0)

Unfortunately this description of the PO is really more wishful thinking than accurate explanation. As proposed in the best mainstream bill, HR3200, the PO would not come into effect until 2013. The only people allowed to enroll are those not OFFERED a plan through their employer. Providers are not required to accept it. It is a completely separate bureaucracy from Medicare and Medicaid. The CBO estimates a very small enrollment. See the following links for more information on what the public option is now and what it should have at a minimum to be a real option. This is what people should be speaking to their reps about, not just saying they want the public option.

http://www.centerforpolicyanal...
http://www.centerforpolicyanal...
http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/2...
http://www.openleft.com/diary/...

by: Laura @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 22:48:35 PM UTC

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