June 24, 2009
Understanding The Public Option
NP: Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
Nate Silver does a great job of breaking down just what the public option is in the health care debate and why it's important in this particular market. Silver continues to be the writer with the most clarity at his site, and a friend supposed that it might be due to the fact that he's spent a lot of time explaining statistics to sports guys, who aren't exactly as wonkish as the political guys that some of the other folks he's brought on are used to writing for.
My biggest objection to "letting the market decide" on health care has always been that it's not really a choice model. If you break your leg, are you going to weigh your options rationally before getting it fixed? Of course not. But what Nate does is breaks down the insurance side of it, which is what this is all really about anyway. Making the public option look like it's about quality of care is a crafted piece of misdirection from critics, which is part of what President Obama pointed out in his press conference yesterday.
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