What Is the Public Option?

What Is the Public Option?

The Nation‘s Chris Hayes explains the proposed healthcare reforms as part of a panel discussion at the Netroots Nation conference.

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The Nation‘s Washington editor Chris Hayes explains the proposed healthcare reforms as part of a panel discussion at the Netroots Nation conference. The entire proposed healthcare bill, Hayes notes, is designed around not making people change their healthcare if they like what they have. Instead, there will be rules that insurance companies have to follow to provide better care, and a health insurance exchange, including a public option, for people who don’t have employer-provided care.

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