Health Care's True Price | The American Prospect

Health-care wonks worth their salt will tell you that the big issue in the current effort to reform our abysmal health-care system is cost control. They say if we don't do something to rein in the spiraling cost of health-care, it will eventually bankrupt us all. This is also a key argument made by advocates of what has become the ideological fulcrum of the health-care reform debate: the public option. Those who want to give Americans the choice of a ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul 9, 2009 - 1:27 PM PDT
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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul. 9, 2009

An outstanding informative article on why the Public Option is needed.

I have always supported the public option. We have to slow the giant amounts of profits and lobby money that is currently being spent at the ... More »

That’s all true. But for the most part, we haven’t heard the best argument for a public option: security. It’s what ought to be at the center of this ... More »

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