A Market for Health Reform: Difference between revisions

From Discourse DB
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with '{{Item |author=Ezra Klein |source=The Washington Post |date=July 29, 2009 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802114.html |quote="Compar...')
 
m (Text replace - 'America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009' to 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act')
 
Line 6: Line 6:
|quote="Compared with the crazy-quilt system we have now, the idea behind the health insurance exchange is almost weirdly simple: It's a single market, structured for consumer convenience, in which you choose between the products of competing health insurers (both public and private). This is not a new idea. It is how we buy everything from books to socks to soup. Everything, that is, except health insurance."
|quote="Compared with the crazy-quilt system we have now, the idea behind the health insurance exchange is almost weirdly simple: It's a single market, structured for consumer convenience, in which you choose between the products of competing health insurers (both public and private). This is not a new idea. It is how we buy everything from books to socks to soup. Everything, that is, except health insurance."
}}
}}
{{Opinion|America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009|Act should be passed|for}}
{{Opinion|Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Act should be passed|for}}

Latest revision as of 14:30, March 11, 2010

This is an opinion item.

Author(s) Ezra Klein
Source The Washington Post
Date July 29, 2009
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802114.html
Quote
Quotes-start.png "Compared with the crazy-quilt system we have now, the idea behind the health insurance exchange is almost weirdly simple: It's a single market, structured for consumer convenience, in which you choose between the products of competing health insurers (both public and private). This is not a new idea. It is how we buy everything from books to socks to soup. Everything, that is, except health insurance." Quotes-end.png


Add or change this opinion item's references


This item argues for the position Act should be passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.