{"id":2837,"date":"2009-08-17T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:04:29","slug":"public-option-may-be-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/17\/public-option-may-be-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Public Option&#8221; may be dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2840\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"health-care symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The White House is signaling that the &#8220;public option&#8221; for healthcare insurance to compete with private plans <a title=\"may be dropped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/18\/health\/policy\/18talkshows.html\" target=\"_blank\">may be dropped<\/a> from reform proposals now before Congress.\u00a0 A compromise would consider nonprofit health cooperatives.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Stephen Davidson\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/DavidsonStephen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Davidson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System<\/em>,&#8221; says the public option is needed.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The public option is the last, best chance for private insurers to show us they can provide better value at lower cost.\u00a0 They have already demonstrated that without it they won&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Stephen Davidson, 617-353-7422, <a href=\"mailto:sdavidso@bu.edu\">sdavidso@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is signaling that the &#8220;public option&#8221; for healthcare insurance to compete with private plans may be dropped from reform proposals now before Congress.\u00a0 A compromise would consider nonprofit health cooperatives.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of &#8220;In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System,&#8221; says the public option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}