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Needing to use of the word "other" there reveals the entirety to simply be big insurance generated propaganda. No "government-run health insurance agency" can logically be described as either "private" or a "health insurance compan[y]," let alone both at once.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The public health insurance option, also known as the public insurance option or the public option, is a proposal to create a government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance companies within the United States.
In reality, it obviously is.The public option is not the same as publicly funded health care,
Joe Manchin eat your heart out.but was proposed as an alternative health insurance plan offered by the government. The public option was initially proposed for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but was removed after independent Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman threatened a filibuster.
Not really.As a result, Congress did not include the public option in the bill passed under reconciliation. The public option was later supported by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the 2016 and 2020 elections and multiple other Democratic candidates, including the current President Joe Biden.
it’s unclear if Medicare for All’s champions, including Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), would back a public option. “I’m tired of baby steps,” Dingell told reporters last week.
Dr. Susan Rogers, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates for a single-payer system, similarly said a public option would not go far enough to rein in the “profit-driven system” and that “the whole idea of coupling employment to health insurance is not logical.”