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DhhD

(4,695 posts) Mon Nov 23, 2015, 02:09 PM Nov 2015

New Democrats Abandoned the Public Option of ACA; Health Care Companies Could Abandon the People

http://wtexas.com/content/15114821-unitedhealth-group-may-abandon-aca-exchanges

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/29/senate.public.option/index.html

http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%E2%80%9Cpublic-option%E2%80%9D-was-sold/
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But the leaders of the “public option” movement haven’t told the public they have abandoned their original vision. It’s high time they did.

The bait

“Public option” refers to a proposal, as Timothy Noah put it, “dreamed up” by Jacob Hacker when Hacker was still a graduate student working on a degree in political science. In two papers, one published in 2001 and the second in 2007, Hacker, now a professor of political science at Berkeley, proposed that Congress create an enormous “Medicare-like” program that would sell health insurance to the non-elderly in competition with the 1,000 to 1,500 health insurance companies that sell insurance today.
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Was Bait and Switch allowed by Republicans or New Democrats, in 2009-10?

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New Democrats Abandoned the Public Option of ACA; Health Care Companies Could Abandon the People (Original Post) DhhD Nov 2015 OP

Could single-payer pass with a Republican majority in the House? Nitram Nov 2015 #1

In 2009 there was nominally a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress hobbit709 Nov 2015 #2

Of course there were the Blue Dog DINOs and the New Democrat Coalition. DhhD Nov 2015 #3

Nitram

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1. Could single-payer pass with a Republican majority in the House?

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Mon Nov 23, 2015, 04:22 PM

Nov 2015

hobbit709

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2. In 2009 there was nominally a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress

Reply to Nitram (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 04:55 PM

Nov 2015

Of course there were the Blue Dog DINOs.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)

3. Of course there were the Blue Dog DINOs and the New Democrat Coalition.

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:49 PM

Nov 2015

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/8/729179/-

The New Democrats (Coalition) Might Sell Us Out On The Public Option

The good news is that over 100 House Democrats from the Progressive, Black, Hispanic and Asian-Pacific Islander Congressional Caucuses and more than 20 Senate Democrats have come out in strong support of a strong, viable public option as a competitive player in health care reform.

The New Democrats, which is a 50-member caucus in the House of Representatives, are silent on the issue of the public option for health care reform. However, one of their members, Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA), shared his views on the public option. Let's say that he represents the same sort of moronic thinking as Senator Ben Nelson in that the public option might be "unfair" for the murder-by-spreadsheet private insurance industry.
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New Democrat Coalition does not want to be unfair to private insurance industry stockholders; to hell with the people who cannot afford healthcare in America.

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