Aug 24, 2016 ... Aetna maintained it was losing hundreds of millions of dollars on the health law's  marketplaces, and the company is one of more than a dozen major insurers that  have announced plans to ... If private companies can provide insurance that  people want to buy at rates competitive with the public option, good.
Aug 18, 2016 ... Since the early 2000s, I had been calling for letting the public sector compete  with private insurers to sign up people younger than 65: not "Medicare for all," a  dream of the left for decades, but ... Now she says she will give "Americans in  every state in the country the choice of a public-option insurance plan.
Aug 30, 2016 ... The best way to improve Obamacare is to add a public option that would allow  Americans to enroll in a public insurance plan modeled after Medicare. ... Part of  this is because the government can just subsidize Medicare if it wants — no  private company can compete on price with a government service that ...
Won't competition be impeded by a universal health care system? ... Should  PNHP support a public Medicare-like option in a market of private plans? ... care.  That does not describe what happens in countries with national health insurance  where doctors and patients often have more clinical freedom than in the U.S.,  where ...
Aug 31, 2016 ... With the law's private health insurance exchanges crumbling, politicians from  President Barack Obama to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are in lockstep  calling for the creation of a so-called public option – a government-run health  insurance scheme that would eventually make private insurance extinct ...
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."