Tag Archives: healthcare reform

thoughts on NOW and the Stupak Amendment

Dis­claimer: I haven’t been fol­low­ing the health care stuff too closely, because it is exhaust­ing, but this par­tic­u­lar aspect inter­ests me. The National Orga­ni­za­tion for Women is very upset because the Stu­pak Amend­ment passed and is part of the health care bill that passed the house the other day. Accord­ing to the NYT, the Amend­ment “would

competition is as american as apple pie, except in education

Recently, I saw the above video on Face­book. Basi­cally, it illus­trates the argu­ment that a pub­lic option in health care would com­pete against pri­vate insur­ers to the ben­e­fit of those cov­ered under both kinds of plans. This argu­ment seems like it is sup­posed to appeal to the market-minded among us, who are into com­pe­ti­tion amongst