7 thoughts on “The Public Option Explained by Reich”
Can’t get this video clip to play. Wanna try again? BTW, SC post was great! And Paul Ryan seems a little late to the game if he’s honestly trying to bring ‘reasonableness’ to his wing-nut party. They’ve already selected their strategy, and it ain’t about reason. Republicans need to listen again to the end of Obama’s speech regarding our national character. They’ve collectively abandoned it.
The video works just fine for me…not sure what could be causing your problem.
The video works for me…but here is a direct link to the video on YouTube
Finally…I get it!! :)) So…what’s the problem with the Public Option??
Wouldn’t the Republican’s plan to allow people to obtain insurance beyond state lines accomplish the same thing, without creating a new deficits?
It seems if the justification for the public option is to increase competition, as Reich suggests, that allowing many Insurance Companies to compete on a national scale would create much more competition than the so called Public Option.
I was having a conversation about the public option with my 22 year old daughter who loves to argue about everything with me…and her position on the public option is that if there is a public option employers will no longer offer health insurance because it’s too expensive. That doesn’t sound right to me. I can’t see health insurance companies just folding…(they’re too greedy to do that)…I see them lowering their costs to compete…but I’m curious if anyone here has an opinion on this point??
I imagine this’ll come as a surprise, but I love that guy. I disagree with him like crazy, but I enjoy listening to him & disagreeing with him. Reich is obviously bright, but I find him funny – especially his self-deprecating humor (he wrote a book titled I’ll be short for crying out loud).
While he’s been very heavily involved in politics, I’ve never gotten the feeling it was about the game to him – he’s always seemed to genuinely believe in his position and that it was for the greater good.
This video itself is really very well done and makes his case as well as anyone I’ve seen. Don’t get me wrong, I still disagree with it. Some of the points are misleading or inaccurate. The public option IS not that simple. Insurance and drug companies have no more self-interest or ulterior motives than the elected officials of the federal government. I’ve not heard a single argument that is at all convincing that the federal government will – or is even capable of – lowering costs. There’s a mountain of evidence of inefficiency and waste no good counter examples. I will say, I found that chart terribly exciting. They’re going to lower healthcare costs beginning in mid 2010. This is really very impressive considering the proposed plan wouldn’t even begin until 2013. It’s really a stunning amount of arrogance that not only can this administration be more efficient and effective, with less waste (he’s going to find & cut hundreds of billions of dollars of waste & fraud in medicare) than any one before it, but it will actually begin lowering costs over 2 years before it’s plan is implemented.
Can’t get this video clip to play. Wanna try again? BTW, SC post was great! And Paul Ryan seems a little late to the game if he’s honestly trying to bring ‘reasonableness’ to his wing-nut party. They’ve already selected their strategy, and it ain’t about reason. Republicans need to listen again to the end of Obama’s speech regarding our national character. They’ve collectively abandoned it.
The video works just fine for me…not sure what could be causing your problem.
The video works for me…but here is a direct link to the video on YouTube
Finally…I get it!! :)) So…what’s the problem with the Public Option??
Wouldn’t the Republican’s plan to allow people to obtain insurance beyond state lines accomplish the same thing, without creating a new deficits?
http://www.republicanproject.org/news/08-21-09/republican-response-governor%E2%80%99s-weekly-address-weekend-august-22-23-2009
It seems if the justification for the public option is to increase competition, as Reich suggests, that allowing many Insurance Companies to compete on a national scale would create much more competition than the so called Public Option.
I was having a conversation about the public option with my 22 year old daughter who loves to argue about everything with me…and her position on the public option is that if there is a public option employers will no longer offer health insurance because it’s too expensive. That doesn’t sound right to me. I can’t see health insurance companies just folding…(they’re too greedy to do that)…I see them lowering their costs to compete…but I’m curious if anyone here has an opinion on this point??
I imagine this’ll come as a surprise, but I love that guy. I disagree with him like crazy, but I enjoy listening to him & disagreeing with him. Reich is obviously bright, but I find him funny – especially his self-deprecating humor (he wrote a book titled I’ll be short for crying out loud).
While he’s been very heavily involved in politics, I’ve never gotten the feeling it was about the game to him – he’s always seemed to genuinely believe in his position and that it was for the greater good.
This video itself is really very well done and makes his case as well as anyone I’ve seen. Don’t get me wrong, I still disagree with it. Some of the points are misleading or inaccurate. The public option IS not that simple. Insurance and drug companies have no more self-interest or ulterior motives than the elected officials of the federal government. I’ve not heard a single argument that is at all convincing that the federal government will – or is even capable of – lowering costs. There’s a mountain of evidence of inefficiency and waste no good counter examples. I will say, I found that chart terribly exciting. They’re going to lower healthcare costs beginning in mid 2010. This is really very impressive considering the proposed plan wouldn’t even begin until 2013. It’s really a stunning amount of arrogance that not only can this administration be more efficient and effective, with less waste (he’s going to find & cut hundreds of billions of dollars of waste & fraud in medicare) than any one before it, but it will actually begin lowering costs over 2 years before it’s plan is implemented.