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...Senate leaders prepare to unveil specific health-care proposals in the next week, it's clear that a public plan could mean many things. But given the levels of Republican and even some moderate Democratic opposition - and the sizable wiggle room the Administration has left itself in order to compromise down the line - it seems very unlikely that it would end up being a liberal approach: a system heavily subsidized by the Federal Government that pays medical providers the same rates they are currently reimbursed by Medicare. Such a proposal would be a battle cry for doctors and hospitals, which...
...like private insurance companies. This kind of plan could be self-sustaining, funded by premiums, and available to consumers via a so-called insurance exchange, a clearinghouse through which Americans could choose from a selection of health-insurance options. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's approach to health care...
...network. Many Democrats believe that would only happen if providers were forced to accept patients, most likely as a condition of participating in Medicare - an idea that the AMA and others reject out of hand. Yet, as Blumberg points out, for all the conservative scare stories about government health care, "the people with the most choice are the people who are in the traditional Medicare program ... [with access to] a huge network of providers because of market power." (Read "Obama's Campaign on Health Care: Papering Over the Details...
...idea. And over the weekend, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said of the co-op plan, "Having these ideas on the table is exactly where we need to be right now." The question is, Will any one of them be enough to get health-care reform to the President's desk by the end of the year...
...pictures of health care in Tehran...