Obama, Frank, Schakowsky: All Proponents of ‘Single-Payer,’ Government-Run Health Care, All Convinced a ‘Public Option’ is the Way to Get There (Hint: They’re Right)

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 10:00 AM  | 

Obama (D-IL): “I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process” (3/24/07, at SEIU “Universal Health Care Forum”); “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care system” (2003 at AFL-CIO event) Frank (D-MA): “I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single-payer; that’s the | Read More »

Who Should Have the Final Say About Your Medical Care: Your Doctor, or Government Bureaucrats?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 17th at 11:59 PM  | 

Update by Jeff: Perhaps this comment will shine a bit more light on the import of this issue. WHO SHOULD HAVE CONTROL over your medical care: your family doctor, or a bureaucrat you’ve never met whose sole job is to look out for the government’s financial bottom-line? That question, which is the subject of today’s AOL Hot Seat poll, is being debated in court right | Read More »