Legal Commentary

Pelosi: No To BaucusCare, Yes To Public Option

By Big Tent Democrat

Think Progress:

Wendell Potter:

A public option must be created to provide true choice to consumers or reform will fail to fix the root of the severe problems that have been caused in large part by the greedy demands of Wall Street. By creating a strong public option and restricting the insurance companies’ ability to enrich executives and investors at the expense of taxpayers and consumers, HR 3200 [the House health bill] will truly benefit Americans. [. . .] The Baucus plan, on the other hand, would create a government subsidized monopoly for the purchase of bare bones high deductible policies that would truly benefit big insurance. In other words, insurers would win, your constituents would lose.”

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).