Word: optioning
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...public option • parody PSA defending health insurance executives asks "who's really supporting it other than 80 percent of the American people...
...Snowe's most provocative contribution to the health-care debate has been her proposal for a trigger that would activate a Medicare-like, government-run public option to provide affordable coverage if private insurance companies failed to. "It would be a safety net, a fallback mechanism," she says, arguing that a similar idea worked well to stimulate competition in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The idea has found a receptive ear at the Obama White House, where officials believe it could be a way to bridge the ideological divide that has made the public option for the least insured...
FlyBy readers be warned: the other FlyBy—the allegedly fast alternative to battling the river house dhalls at lunch—seems to have declined in its rapidity. No longer a forgotten option for the perpetually busy upperclassman (or Quad resident), FlyBy's popularity has apparently grown noticeably this year...
...Vice President of the Harvard ROTC Association, agreed that Harvard’s policy was partly to blame for the flat enrollment. “Because of Harvard’s de-recognition of the program, people don’t think Harvard is an option if they want to pursue a military career,” she said. But Sinnott also said that the current Harvard administration seems to be more accepting of ROTC. “[University President Drew G.] Faust has been a lot more receptive,” she said. “We?...
...What do you think about the current fight over health-care reform? Well, it's going down heavily. Obama's not going to get a public option. By the time the thousand-page monstrosity of complexity and ambiguity gets to his desk, it's going to be a shred of what the majority of doctors, nurses and the people in this country want - which is full Medicare...