{"id":6585,"date":"2009-08-19T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/the-public-insurance-option-ha.html"},"modified":"2009-08-19T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:19:57","slug":"the-public-insurance-option-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/the-public-insurance-option-ha.html","title":{"rendered":"The public insurance option has it’s roots in single payer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further proof of what that the public option of ObamaCare is the road to single payer<\/a>, not only have Barney Frank<\/a> and Obama admitted it<\/a> but now we have research (from a lefty, not Fox News) that the public option is single payer lite:<\/p>\n

As progressives mourn the likely death of a public insurance option in health care reform, it’s worthwhile to trace the history of exactly where this idea — a compromise itself — came from. The public option was part of a carefully thought out and deliberately funded effort to put all the pieces in place for health reform before the 2008 election — a brilliant experiment, but one that at this particular moment, looks like it might turn out badly. (Which is not the same as saying it was a mistake.)
\nOne key player was Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America’s Future. Hickey took UC Berkley health care expert Jacob Hacker’s idea for “a new public insurance pool modeled after Medicare” and went around to the community of single-payer advocates, making the case that this limited “public option” was the best they could hope for. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the pitch:<\/p>\n

The good news is that people are ready for big change. But the hard reality, from the point of view of all of us who understand the efficiency and simplicity of a single-payer system, is that our pollsters unanimously tell us that large numbers of Americans are not willing to give up the good private insurance they now have in order to be put into one big health plan run by the government<\/strong>.
\nPollster Celinda Lake looked at public backing for a single-payer plan – and then compared it with an approach that offers a choice between highly regulated private insurance and a public plan like Medicare. This alternative, called “guaranteed choice” wins 64 percent support to 22 percent for single-payer. And even the hard core progressive part of the population, which Celinda calls the “health justice” constituency, favors “guaranteed choice” over single-payer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the public figured out what the stealth single payer supporters wanted to hide, they’ll lose their healthcare insurance when tax payer subsidized government insurance is offered. No wonder Obama’s “surprised” over the brouhaha<\/a>, he didn’t expect us to figure it out what they were trying to do. But the Americans aren’t as dumb as their reputation makes them out to be. We know what they’re doing, the jig is up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further proof of what that the public option of ObamaCare is the road to single payer, not only have Barney Frank and Obama admitted it but now we have research (from a lefty, not Fox News) that the public option is single payer lite: As progressives mourn the likely death of a public insurance option…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-2","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"\nThe public insurance option has it's roots in single payer - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/the-public-insurance-option-ha.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The public insurance option has it's roots in single payer - 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