the public plan will always be a part of the law of any room, but payments will not be tied to the current rate of reimbursement from Medicare for health care providers, reported Washington post . Instead, HHS department, which would run the public plan would negotiate prices with health care providers themselves.
This would put the public option on almost even keel with other private health plans currently on the market.
So, on one side, the Liberal Democrats are up in arms, believing it weakens the public system. But then, this agreement means the public option will have a lower risk of forcing private insurers on the market.
Really what it means is that Americans have more equal choice in the market. Regardless of what many advocates of the public plan said the Medicare payment structure as a precedent would certainly have given the public plan an inherent advantage in the individual market health insurance: It would be able to set premiums than other plans private would not be able to match.
If the point of the public health insurance plan is to give more Americans options, this agreement Blue Dog makes perfect sense. It would be unfair to allow one baseball team had only eight players on the field, as opposed to nine, right?
But the question of how this will affect Americans who currently have coverage remains a big question, one that is making its way into the public. are concerned A huge 69 percent of health care reform Americans will decrease the quality of their own care, reported The New York Times .
On the surface, it seems that this deal levels the playing court, but has the enthusiasm to help millions of Americans who do not have coverage to obtain insurance for the first time?
Just one of the gazillion questions that remain.
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