by slinkerwink
Share this on Twitter - Guess What They're Now Using To Delay The Public Option? Fri Sep 18, 2009 at 08:15:14 AM PDT
Regional pilot programs were brought up by Rep. Louise Slaughter in her diary on Dailykos yesterday as another "compromise" on the public option. Here's why the "pilot programs" initially thought up by Rep. Clyburn is a non-starter for us who've been fighting so hard for a trigger-free public option!
Pilot programs are a way to prevent the public option from being delivered on a national scale. In order to contain costs of private insurance premiums, the public option has to compete nationally in order to deliver this kind of power. A regional pilot program is just a way to kill the public option because it won't be effective in providing competition on a smaller scale, and it's basically like a regional co-op in terms of scale and cost-effectiveness. It has to be done on a national scale.
If the public option isn't effective on a regional scale (which they won't be, given the scale of competition), then the national public option would never get started. It's their new trigger for the public option, and Reps. Slaughter and Clyburn are playing along with it.
{More)
<
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/18/783840/-Guess-What-Theyre-Now-Using-To-Delay-The-Public-Option>
We already have pilot programs and they work...they're called Medicare/Medicaid, and there are others. No need for any pilot programs! Read the article and then give Clyburn and Slaughter the news.