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andym

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Thu Aug-20-09 10:49 AM
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20. Hacker seems to believe that his vision of the public plan is similar to proposed versions

Read http://institute.ourfuture.org/files/Jacob_Hacker_Public_Plan_Choice.pdf written in 12/08, before the current legislation was written. He discusses Obama's and Baucus' initial plans (which sound a lot like the HELP committee version), and concludes that they will satisfy his principles for success.

Whether his analysis is correct is open to debate however. Some of his suggestions, such as possible payments to private insurers to keep the sickest patients, thankfully did NOT make it into the current legislation.

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