A Moderate Plan for Health Care

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/opinion/12tue2.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=moderate%20plan%20for%20health%20care&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Subject: re: A Moderate Plan for Health Care
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    The Insurance industry is indeed "desperate to avoid competition". The arguments they advance must be weighed with this in mind. When they worry that a public plan might "have unfair advantages", they are fretting that a public plan won't pay lobbyists, won't pay bureaucrats to contest who has to pay and won't pay bonuses to highly paid executives. What look like "unfair advantages" to the entrenched insurance companies and their lobbyists look like excellent arguments in favor of a public plan to me.

Barry Levine