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Public Option
early and often
May 7, 2023
Bring Back the Public Option! Biden’s “battle for the soul of America” rerun won’t be enough against Trump in 2024. He needs to give voters something real.
By Ross Barkan
The Fight Over the Public Option Is Already Here The largest health-care fight since Obamacare starts with a preemptive strike.
By Sarah Jones
health care
Dec. 28, 2020
COVID Is Killing State-Level Efforts to Make Health Care a Right By blowing holes in budgets — and making heroes out of hospitals — the pandemic set back coverage expansions in states throughout the country.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Apr. 13, 2020
How Biden Can Respond to the Left’s Demand for Medicare for All Biden’s first “concessions” on health-care policy aren’t enough to satisfy progressives. He might want to emulate Warren’s two-step plan.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden Inches Toward Sanders on Health Care, Student Loans But on health care in particular, Biden’s revised plan doesn’t do much for those about to get hammered with private-health-insurance costs.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Mar. 11, 2020
Will Biden Actually Fight for a Public Option? The former veep is not actually going to have the opportunity to veto Medicare for All. But how will he enact his own proposal to expand coverage?
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 28, 2019
The Public Option Is Politically Superior to M4A — But Only As a Sound Bite “Medicare for All Who Want It” plays well on the stump. But in Congress, it would face about as many political obstacles as single-payer.
By Eric Levitz
health care
Aug. 27, 2019
If Democrats Flip Senate, They Plan to Fix Obamacare, Not Pass Medicare for All If Democrats win the Senate and take on the filibuster, their health-care agenda will involve an Obamacare fix and some strengthening of Medicare.
By Ed Kilgore
health care
Mar. 19, 2019
Beto and Bernie Offer Competing Plans to Fix Health Care Medicare for All is still the dominant Democratic health-care idea for 2020, but the less ambitious plan backed by O’Rourke could be a competitor.
By Ed Kilgore
Obamacare Was a Political Success It hurt the Democrats in the short run. But new polling confirms that the ACA gave the left a permanent advantage in the health-care debate.
By Eric Levitz
Tim Kaine Declines to Sign Senate Resolution Calling for Public Option The public option may be Obamacare’s best hope for long-term success. And moderate Senate Democrats are lining up against it.
By Eric Levitz
Clinton Reaffirms Support for Public Option She has formally endorsed adding a public option to Obamacare, as well as lowering the age for Medicare access and expanding funding for health-clinic care.
By Chas Danner
health carnage
Mar. 24, 2010
By Dan Amira
early and often
Feb. 21, 2010
Why Chuck Schumer Is Backing the Public Option (Again) The senator from New York is positioning himself to be majority leader.
By Chris Smith
health carnage
Feb. 19, 2010
By Dan Amira
relationship advice for president obama
Dec. 23, 2009
Obama Is Trying Too Hard to Make Health-Care Reform Look Perfect Obama claims he never actually campaigned on the public option. Fine … and?
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Dec. 21, 2009
Health-Care Grandstanding Is Not Over There are going to be a lot of people in the House of Representatives to appease.
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Dec. 16, 2009
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Dec. 14, 2009
White House: Appease Lieberman That’s the message to Harry Reid, reportedly.
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Dec. 11, 2009
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Dec. 7, 2009
Public Option Supposedly Dead, Again It could be replaced by a privately run plan that sounds vaguely like something associated with the government.
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Nov. 3, 2009
Joe Lieberman Is Playing Some Crazy Mind Games Will he filibuster health care? It’s impossible to tell.
By Dan Amira
what other people think
Oct. 27, 2009
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Oct. 26, 2009
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Oct. 22, 2009
The Public Option Is Back, Again Harry Reid is grabbing the bill by the horns.
By Adam K. Raymond
health carnage
Oct. 21, 2009
Heather Graham Stars in Surprisingly Effective Pro–Public Option Ad The actress demonstrates the public option as the ultimate capitalist health-care tool.
By Lindsay Robertson
health carnage
Oct. 19, 2009
It’s Back! The Public Option Lives Max Baucus: “This issue is alive.”
By Adam K. Raymond
health carnage
Oct. 8, 2009
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Sept. 29, 2009
Bi-partisan Group Votes Down Public Option A handful of Democrats joined with their Republican colleagues against a government-run health-insurance option.
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Sept. 29, 2009
So What Will Happen With the Public Option? As the Senate Finance Committee debates the public option, does it still stand a chance of passing?
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Aug. 18, 2009
By Dan Amira
what other people think
Aug. 17, 2009
Possible Death of the Public Option: What’s the Big Deal? Many pundits say the public option was never really necessary anyway.
By Dan Amira
early and often
Aug. 17, 2009
‘Public Option’ May Get Its Plug Pulled Momentum in Congress seems to be shifting away from one of Obama’s health-care hopes.
By Chris Rovzar