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...their view, the insurance companies were being thrown under the bus. During an Aug. 4 conference call with reporters, Karen Ignagni, lead lobbyist for the industry, described the Democrats' marketing push as a new campaign "launched to demonize health plans" and "the same-old Washington politics of 'find an enemy and go to war.' " Said Ignagni before declaring insurers' support for reform: "Attacking our community will not help get anyone covered...
Although you didn't define what a public option really is. I would say, Karen, actually we defined it fairly clearly in terms of what we thought would work best. What I said was, is that it shouldn't be something that's simply a taxpayer-subsidized system that wasn't accountable, but rather had to be self-sustaining through premiums and that had to compete with private insurers. (Read "Taxing Pricey Insurance: No Health-Care Cure...
TIME senior writer Karen Tumulty sat down with President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon to talk about his work both in public and behind the scenes to push a health-care-reform measure through Congress. Here's the full transcript...
Although you didn't define what a public option really is. I would say, Karen, actually we defined it fairly clearly in terms of what we thought would work best. What I said was, is that it shouldn't be something that's simply a taxpayer-subsidized system that wasn't accountable, but rather had to be self-sustaining through premiums and that had to compete with private insurers...
...time looking at my polls. I do look at the polling on health care, partly because I think that there is a terrific case to be made to the American public. But it is - this is complicated, it's difficult. Without giving you a hard time, Karen, because I think you've been terrific in reporting this, the press gets bored with the details easily, and it very easily slips into a very conventional debate about government-run health care versus the free market, et cetera, which is not at all what the real debate is about, but that...