You recall my piece about whether the public plan would be set up to be adversely selected against like historically Medicare has been. Well this week Paul Starr did a rather better job on the same topic.
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Great version of the public plan here from Enthoven: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/opinion/25enthoven.html?_r=1
Right on the money, as far as it goes.
What the article doesn’t show is whether a public plan is necessary in the first place, but if we have one this is a good description of the dynamics.