Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Health Affairs Blog-Hiding In Plain Sight: Using Medicare To Solve The ‘Public Option’ Conundrum

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by Jeff Goldsmith

As Senate and House Committee versions of health reform move toward unified legislation and floor votes, the most complex political challenge is how to resolve the “public option” controversy. While one would have thought weightier issues such as the shape of Medicare reform, the taxation required to support coverage subsidies, or the presence or absence of mandates would have been pivotal in this debate, the seemingly peripheral issue of a Medicare-like “public option” might be the hill on which health reform dies.
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