The problem is the for-profit insurance company takeover of our health care. Handing the private insurance companies 50 million more lives to cover with no benchmark on cost or quality, no ability to stop them from wrongly delaying and denying care, in short, giving them a monopoly over our health insurance coverage for working people is not reform.
Only giving people the choice of a robust national public health insurance option provides a tenable solution to our health care crisis.
Without a public health insurance option there is no cost or quality benchmark.
Because public and private are competing side-by-side people with Medicare have a guaranteed back-up plan when their private insurance company decides to pull out of the program or merge with another company or their doctor drops out of their plan’s network.
Without a public health insurance option there is no guaranteed backup.
Because Medicare has such a large membership, it has leverage over large provider conglomerates to get better rates.
Without a public health insurance option there is no negotiating with the large provider conglomerates. ...
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