Citations:public option

In health care

• 2005 March 18, “Health Care Alarms Sound”, in Hartford Courant:

  If public-subsidized health benefits are generous, cost-conscious companies can't be blamed if they and their employees take advantage of the public option.

• 2006 February 6, “Nation Topics - Department of Veterans Affairs”, in The Nation:

  The very same senators who smear the public option are staunch supporters of the Veterans Health Administration--and that really is socialized medicine

Other than in health care

• 1990 March 9, “Attempt To Revise Trash Plan Is Thwarted”, in Reading Eagle:

  The commissioner said that he did not think that the plan placed enough emphasis on letting industry handle the trash needs of the county. I think this board gave you very clear instructions to hold open the public option only as a last resort,"

• 1996 November 2, “Bipartisan Voter Rebellion Against Big Money in Maine Is Expected to Succeed”, in New York Times:

  The program, being watched nationally as a comprehensive approach to curb spending, would cut current contribution limits, double the registration fees paid by lobbyists and tap state executive and legislative budgets to help finance a public option -- informally called a white hat alternative -- for candidates who renounce all other campaign money.

• 2008, Nicholas Barr with Peter Diamond, Reforming pensions: principles and policy choices:

  Competition between public and private providers, provided that the public option is offered on a level playing field, seems potentially useful.