{"id":2926,"date":"2009-08-19T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2009-08-19T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:31:53","slug":"healthcare-debates-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/19\/healthcare-debates-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare debate&#8217;s public option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama reportedly was <a title=\"caught unprepared\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/18\/AR2009081803655.html\" target=\"_blank\">caught unprepared <\/a>for the intra-Democratic Party infighting over healthcare-reform proposals, particularly over the proposed &#8220;public option&#8221; to compete with private insurance companies.\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 <em>&#8220;In Urgent Need of Reform: The U.S. Healthcare System,&#8221;<\/em> argues in a Huffington Post <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stephen-m-davidson\/why-the-public-option-is_b_262367.html\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> that advocates of the public option shouldn&#8217;t let themselves get put on the defensive.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Instead, they should insist that opponents explain what innovations insurers will introduce to provide good value at affordable prices.&#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>President Obama reportedly was caught unprepared for the intra-Democratic Party infighting over healthcare-reform proposals, particularly over the proposed &#8220;public option&#8221; to compete with private insurance companies.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of &#8220;In Urgent Need of Reform: The U.S. Healthcare System,&#8221; argues in a Huffington Post commentary that advocates of 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\/2926"}],"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=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}