More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada's new public-option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those ...

Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced new legislation that would establish a "Part E" for Medicare, which would allow people to opt into the program. Reps. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., and Don ...

If conservatives seem ridiculously hyperbolic about what the public option does and does not do–it does not, for example, increase costs (it could decrease them) or mean a government takeover of ...

Nevadans face a critical turning point that could dramatically alter the future direction of health care in the state for years to come. The Battle Born State Plan began on Jan. 1, putting Nevada on ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Nearly two decades ago, progressives fought to include a so-called public option — a government-run health plan — in the broad health care overhaul known as Obamacare. That ...

Adding a public health insurance option to the current healthcare system is currently more popular among voters than “Medicare for All,” but the next round of Democratic presidential debates could ...

As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden proposed a public option for health care coverage, under which Americans under 65 years old could choose to participate in a Medicare-style plan run by ...

Although the prospects of a public option finding its way into the Senate Finance Committee health reform bill are bleak, Chairman Max Baucus seems ready to devote the bulk of today’s markup to the ...

The “public option” for health insurance, as defined by the 111th Congress, grew from roots planted in California in 2001. Progressives supported it as a voluntary transition toward single-payer ...

More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those ...

Part I. Understanding the public option: The limits of private action -- Why public options? -- The theory of the public option -- Caveats and counterarguments -- Part II. The history of the public ...