‘Public Option’ in Health Plan May Be Dropped
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: August 17, 2009
For President Obama, giving up on a public insurance plan could punch a hole in Republican arguments but could also alienate liberal Democrats.
Damn straight "it could also alienate liberal Democrats."
I'm feeling very alienated here...
It doesn't seem to me that setting up non-profit cooperative for getting the uninsured or the under-insured will be any more effective than the faith-based assistance programs of the past administration. What non-profit is going to be interested in taking on the very poor and the very sick.
Instead of one administrative entity, we're going to have a plethora of smaller, isolated, administrative entities, all going their own way, all duplicating the management processes. There will be the same kinds of wasted efforts, and the same inequities that we currently have.
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