The health insurers stumble into an argument for a public option.

Health reform cleared the Senate finance committee, 14-9, without a public option. Now the trick is figuring out how to put it back in. One powerful argument for doing so comes from an unlikely source: the private health-insurance lobby. Full Story »

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by Jim Lang - Oct. 17, 2009

An objective and enlightening discussion of what the PWCoopers analysis of the Senate Finance Committee health care bill really shows.

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by Sirajul Islam - Oct. 14, 2009

The Senate Finance bill is a dream comes true of the health insurance industry. If there is no ‘public option,’ then nothing is going to change. The choice of a public health insurance option is the only way to keep insurance companies honest. Or, certainly the premiums go up as cited by the report. I like this report.

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by Kristin Gorski - Oct. 15, 2009

Original insights and careful analysis of the consequences of possible health care reform bill(s) passing. Links out to other articles support the writer's points and provide additional information to interested readers. Certainly puts the AHIP's recent report about rising health insurance costs into proper perspective.

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 15, 2009

An excellent, detailed analysis of Price Waterhouse Cooper’s report about what happens to health insurance premiums in the off-chance healthcare reform becomes reality. Except the report ends up actually providing an intelligent argument--not against reform, its orginal intention--but FOR the public option. Wups! (My kind of journalism.)

Price Waterhouse’s argument: with healthcare reform, insurance premiums will rise 32%; but kill reform and premiums shoot up 79%. Way to go, guys!

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 14, 2009

Noah adds information and interpretation to the health insurance reform costs question. He gives reasons to dismiss several assertions, and provides some better questions to ponder. Recommended as part of the syllabus.

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by David Agnew - Oct. 14, 2009
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by Randy Morrow - Oct. 15, 2009
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by Robert B. Elliott - Oct. 15, 2009

I would have to call this high quality journalism. Noah knows his stuff & provides an accurate analysis minus a lot of hyperbole. He uncovers the transparency of the self-serving motives of the health insurers in commissioning a study that is not a study at all but an attempt tp fabricate a basis for keeping their stranglehold on the health field.

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