08-26-2009, 09:16 AM
Quote:I wonder what Paul Krugman thinks?The key point being they would kill the private plans though *competition*. People would find the public plan cheaper and better. They would switch to that plan for the same reason any consumer switches products in a free market.
Public Option Will Kill Private Insurance -- Check out at minute 2:20.
Then, you'd be getting better health care for cheaper, which is exactly what single-payer advocates have been saying, and what other developed countries have been experiencing. Better health care for half the price. What a concept.
-Jester
(The video is about Hillary's plan from 2007, by the way. Krugman has written reams about the current plan; perhaps we should be looking at that instead?)