Former health insurance industry exec and current health care reform advocate Wendell Potter (who will speak at an NC Policy Watch Crucial Conversation on Tuesday the 29th) spoke before the House Democratic Steering Committee yesterday in Washington. His message: “don’t give up on the public option.”
But I have also expressed concern that if Congress goes along with the so-called ‘solutions’ the insurance industry says it is bringing to the table and acquiesces to the demands it is making of lawmakers, and if it fails to create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers, the bill it sends to the president might as well be called the Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act.”
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