‘Public Option’ in Health Plan May Be Dropped

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/health/policy/17talkshows.html?_r=1&hp

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Subject: re: ‘Public Option’ in Health Plan May Be Dropped
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

As long as private health insurance companies compete to insure the young and the healthy and to exclude those with actual healthcare needs, anyone writing those policies will carry a disproportionate share of America's healthcare costs. It may be impossible to legislate real healthcare reform until we first reform campaign finance and the gerrymandering of congressional districts. Still, any bill without a robust Public Option should face a presidential veto. At least the office of the president should be beyond the influence of the insurance lobby.

Barry Levine