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August 21, 2020
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Libby Watson
Health Care Reform Is Being Slashed Into Oblivion
Biden says we don’t need radical ideas like Medicare for All to fix our broken system. But his more modest reforms may already be dead on arrival.
October 17, 2019
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Libby Watson
The Public Option Bait and Switch
The health care plans competing against Medicare for All are benefiting from a lack of scrutiny.
September 19, 2019
Libby Watson
Pete Buttigieg’s Health Care Plan Is the Worst Yet
Short on details and long on naïvete, the South Bend mayor aims to leave the status quo unruffled.
September 16, 2019
Dana Brown
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Isaiah J. Poole
The Case for a Public Option for the Drug Industry
The controversial proposed deal with Purdue Pharma hints at better alternatives to for-profit pharmaceutical companies.
September 16, 2016
David Dayen
How Democrats Can Overcome Their Self-Defeating Cynicism
Democrats are at their most inspiring when they’re pushing actual policies. The public option is a good place to start.
February 23, 2016
Brian Beutler
Hillary Clinton revives the public option ... sort of.
January 13, 2016
Brian Beutler
How Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Can Unite on Health Care
It's the public option, stupid!
January 12, 2016
Brian Beutler
Why aren’t Hillary and Bernie pushing the public option?
November 25, 2014
Brian Beutler
Chuck Schumer Is Trash Talking Obamacare Again—And He's Still Not Making Any Sense
August 7, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Latest Obamacare "Glitch" Isn't a Glitch At All—and It's Democrats' Fault
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