Forget the Public Option, How About a Private Option?

As the health care reform legislation wends its way through Congress, it appears that some sort of Public Option may be included in the bill.  The latest talk is that it will only be available to those who have no health insurance. If you already have health insurance through your employer you won’t be able [...]

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The Public Option for Insurance – How about One for Banks Too?

In many of America’s large cities there are tall skyscrapers, and if you look at who owns the tallest of the skyscrapers you will often find that they are owned either by a major bank or a major insurance company.  If you care to think about that for a few moments I’m pretty sure you’ll [...]

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The Solution to U.S. Health Insurance: Outsource It

The barons of American industry discovered long ago that they could get people in other, less well off, countries to do factory work for less money than what Americans wanted for pay. It all started with the outsourcing of American jobs within the country itself. Good paying jobs in the textile and other industries migrated [...]

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Obama’s Health Care Public Option – Poison Pill or Panacea?

It was only a week or two ago that the Obama administration was letting it be known that their plan for a Public Option was, in itself, an option.  Maybe a co-op sort of health plan thing would be just as good, they were saying.  They were flexible. Let’s just all work together and get [...]

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