Opinion: Public Option or Not, Government Role ‘Inescapable’
Whether the "solution to universal access to high-quality care" in the U.S. is a public plan or a health cooperative, "the trade-off of more government for better care is inescapable," health care planning and policy consultant Lucy Johns writes. She concludes, "[O]nce we get past that, maybe we concentrate on better health for all Americans."
- "Health Co-Ops Need Same Shields as Public Plan" (Johns, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/19).