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A Re-Post from Robert Reich; PhD
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The healthcare public option is dead, killed by a handful of senators from small states who are mostly bought off by Big Insurance and Big Pharma -or- intimidated by these industries’ deep pockets and power to run political ads against them.
Assessment
Some might say it’s no great loss at this point because the Senate bill Harry Reid came up with contained a public option available only to 4 million people, which would have been far too small to exert any competitive pressure on private insurers anyway.
Link: http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-few-private-health-insurers-are-on.html
Conclusion
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