A Public Plan for Health Insurance?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07tue1.html?scp=1&sq=a%20public%20plan%20for%20health%20insurance&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Subject: re: A Public Plan for Health Insurance?
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   You note that "What many critics seem to fear most [in Obama's healthcare initiative] is that a new public plan would sweep away its private competitors". You are too delicate to say that those private competitors currently route millions of dollars to the re-election campaigns of our senators and congresspeople. Only when we make campaign finance reform work can we expect a healthcare system that serves the people, rather than the insurance industry and its lobbyists.

Barry Levine