Comments on: Medicare, Part E (for “everyone”)

By: Medicare Part E « Carrots & Sticks

Medicare Part E « Carrots & Sticks — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:16:58 +0000

[...] Health Care Reform, Medicare Part E, Public Option So if calling the public option “Medicare Part E” actually catches on and gets the bill through Congress it will add a whole new wrinkle of [...]

By: Cal Berkeley Democrats » Why the Public Option is Central to Health Care Reform

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:52:39 +0000

[...] suggested back in May or Medicare Part E (the ‘e’ stands for ‘everyone’) as Mark Kleiman recently mused, nearly any of the alternative names I’ve heard would have been better than ‘public option.’ [...]

By: MisterOwl

MisterOwl — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:32:33 +0000

Thom Hartmann wrote about the benefits of this approach here:

http://www.thomhartmann.com/2009/09/09/medicare-part-e-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Ceverybody%E2%80%9D

By: The fake Howard Dean

The fake Howard Dean — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:29:27 +0000

Great idea.
Wish I had thought of that…

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019538.php#1576285

By: Jamus4

Jamus4 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:15:18 +0000

Advocates have been using this framing for years – time to go viral – all the public option automailers need to use this as a header!

By: beowulf

beowulf — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:26:28 +0000

Let’s see, it provides more choices (Medicare doesn’t have “provider networks”), at lower cost, doesn’t deny care based on pre-existing conditions or rescissions and doesn’t drop your coverage too sick to work. However it will do to insurance companies what the internet did to travel agencies.

So yeah, how can anyone expect Obama to propose something so crazy?

By: Ed Whitney

Ed Whitney — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:13:28 +0000

Not directly relevant to this post, but does anyone happen to know about the dust-up over the fact that Humana was ordered to stop sending misleading information about the changes in Medicare Advantage to its beneficiaries? Mitch McConnell is all bent out of shape about this “outrageous gag order” by the oppressive Obama administration. Brant Bozell is hollering about the blindness of the media (with the exception of ABC) failing to report this story.
Any fact-based rebuttals to all this? I think that there are restrictions on lobbying by firms that receive tax dollars, but an expert opinion on this would be most welcome!