the current estimates of the public option would have 10 million people and Cost 1 Trillion over the next decade.
That is quite a shift!
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Lewin Analysis of Health Plan: Good News for Obama and Clinton
Posted: February 18, 2008 01:02 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-hickey/lewin-analysis-of-hackere_b_87125.html "...A year ago, just as EPI was publishing Hacker's HCFA plan, CAF had already gone to work, engaging everyone who would listen in public and private educational discussions about the Hacker-EPI approach -- including presidential candidates from both parties. After a year-long dialogue, we can see how Hacker's work has become the template for both Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's health care plans. And just as importantly, our allies in the labor movement, public interest and community action networks are coming together around basic health care principles that are based on Hacker's model for health care for all. More on this soon - here at this website and at the Take Back America conference March 17, 18 and 19."CAF Blog Chronicles Impact of Hacker Health Care for America Plan on the Evolution of the Edwards and Obama Health Proposals
Health Care for America
By Roger Hickey on January 11, 2007 - 4:14pm.
http://www.ourfuture.org/files/documents/evolution-of-the-healthcare-debate.pdf"The great debate over how to fundamentally fix our broken health care system just got a lot more interesting.
Today, the Economic Policy Institute released the Health Care for America plan – a simple yet sophisticated approach crafted by Jacob Hacker, author of “The Great Risk Shift.” Health Care for America, which you can find at www.sharedprosperity.org, comprehensively tackles the major health care problems holding back our society and economy: the 46 million uninsured, the skyrocketing costs and the uneven quality.
My organization, Campaign for America’s Future, will be launching a nationwide effort to discuss and debate how to get good healthcare coverage for all Americans while controlling spiraling health care costs. The best way to start that debate is to put a simple, clear and progressive health care plan on the table. Health Care for America is that plan, and it will be a benchmark by which all other plans can be judged...
...But if the rules for public-private competition are poorly thought out, an inefficient private system will simply suck subsidies from the public sector, sullying the promise of universal coverage.Again, the details matter. The initial Edwards plan has room to add in crucial details. And Hacker is urging Edwards to enhance his proposal by ensuring the public plan would “offer the broader benefits necessary to attract younger workers and compete on a level playing field with private insurance plans.”
HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICA WOULD SAVE BILLIONS
Lewin Analysis Shows Immediate Savings, Rein on Costs
http://www.sharedprosperity.org/hcfa/news_release.pdf"...Lewin estimates the proposal would cover 99.6 percent of all Americans without raising
total national health spending.
It would also save hundreds of billions over time – more
than $1 trillion over the next 10 years – in national health spending, according to Lewin.
...The 38 million Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollees would
be folded into the new insurance pool, with current levels of coverage guaranteed.
Lewin
estimates that, of the 260 million Americans not enrolled in Medicare, half would be in
the new Health Care for America program and the other half would continue to be
covered by private employer-based coverage..."