most Democrats in Washington say such a plan is critical - .. not only provide Americans an affordable option health insurance, but also to compete with private plans and promote healthy competition
Republican lawmakers, the insurance industry and other opponents of the idea say the public plan the introduction of such an option would actually take some private companies on the market.
Thus, US Senator Charles Schumer of New York proposed a bit of a compromise by establishing specific rules of the public plan must follow, as reported by The New York Times . The public health plan must:
- pay claims with premiums and co-payments, and should not receive tax revenues
- Pay more doctors than Medicare
- not urge physicians to participate if they already accept Medicare patients
- have administrators that do not regulate the insurance market
"the public plan must be subject to the same rules and requirements as all other plans, "said Senator Schumer.
obviously there are still many points to make. But we believe it is probably a good thing Democratic lawmakers have shown willingness to compromise in their super-majority status.
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