Howard Dean: I Love This Compromise, Which I Thought Up, Because it Empowers Bureaucracy & Leads to Single-Payer

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  December 10th at 09:30 AM  | 

While others have reported that a bipartisan group of Senators arrived at the current Senate compromise all on their own, Howard Dean says that’s not true. It seems that he’s responsible for the proposal currently being considered in the Senate. Former Governor Howard Dean helped broker a health care compromise that Senate Democratic leaders say could move the bill forward. Dean’s proposal is designed to | Read More »

‘Public Option’ Was Created to Lead to Single Payer

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 19th at 12:30 PM  | 

Patrick Ruffini points to this helpful history of the ‘public option:’ One key player was Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America’s Future. Hickey took UC Berkley health care expert Jacob Hacker’s idea for “a new public insurance pool modeled after Medicare” and went around to the community of single-payer advocates, making the case that this limited “public option” was the best they could hope | Read More »