{"id":1014,"date":"2009-11-08T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:45:11","slug":"kudos-to-harry-reid-for-including-public-option-in-proposed-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/liberty\/kudos-to-harry-reid-for-including-public-option-in-proposed-health-care-bill.php","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Harry Reid for Including Public Option in Proposed Health Care Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/26\/AR2009102603488.html?hpid=topnews\">Yesterday's announcement<\/a> by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will include a government-run insurance plan (a public-option) in the health care bill that will now be debated in the Senate is excellent news.<\/p><p>Contrary to naysayers' arguments, including a public option does nothing to  limit the ability of private insurers to compete - unless by \"competition\" one means the ability to impose unfair conditions on customers because they have nowhere else to turn under the current oligarchy.<\/p><p>The bottom-line is that a government-run public option would keep the private insurers honest, resulting in better, less expensive coverage for all.<\/p><p>Now the Democrats need to put aside their differences to get behind and pass a plan with the public option.   One interesting aspect of Reid's proposal would allow individual states to \"opt-out,\" &amp; refuse to participate in the public option - a perfectly reasonable provision that respects America's federalist structure.  This could lead to a very interesting side-show in the states - how many citizens would vote with their feet and leave states that opted out?? <\/p><p>Sure, it would be nice if a Republican or two (or even more) would take off their partisan blinders for a moment and consider what Americans truly want and need instead of playing the same old politics, but given the experience of the recent past we won't hold our breath - so now it's up to the Senate Democrats to do the right thing and pass this bill.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7da02_3122159219131426808-3282315962083013394?l=progressiveliberty.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday's announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will include a government-run insurance plan (a public-option) in the health care bill that will now be debated in the Senate is excellent news.Contrary to naysayers' arguments, including a public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/liberty\/kudos-to-harry-reid-for-including-public-option-in-proposed-health-care-bill.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}