Obama’s Public Health Plan: The Elephant in the Room

Nina Sidoryanskaya / July 01, 2009

Under the government-proposed public health plan, “people will involuntarily lose their coverage and will be bled into the new plan,” said Heritage’s senior policy analyst for health care Nina Owcharenko at yesterday’s Blogger Briefing.

“They expect they would have their private insurance plans competing with the public plan but at the end of the day the public plan will be the last one standing,” she said.

Owcharenko explained that the legislative process isn’t moving at the rapid pace once anticipated. So far, the Kennedy-Dodd bill is still incomplete. The House has introduced their tri-committee bill that’s some 800 pages long, and is further to the left than the Kennedy-Dodd bill. However, a final compromise has not been reached as we enter the Independence Day recess. (more…)