Phillip Cryan

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  • Published Health Care Reform Now at a “Which Side?” Moment for Progressives (Blog entry)
    November 16, 2009 - 11:06am
    After a year’s arduous work on health care reform, some progressives are throwing up their hands in exasperation: what did we really get for all the struggle and strife? Should we even support it? According to critics, Democratic legislators have compromised too often and conceded too much. The bundle of policies we’re left with is deeply flawed – imperfect half-measures unable to deliver on any of our major goals. Why bother fighting, in the end, to secure passage of a reform that’s so weak? Voices like these have been a recurring feature of U.S. healthcare debate for decades. They tend to forget – improbably enough, for people who genuinely want to transform our screwed-up health care system – that only a political victory can change that system.
  • Published No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible (Blog entry)
    June 30, 2009 - 10:56am

    Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – cooperatives, state or regional plans, a “trigger” for the public plan, a public plan prohibited from bargaining with drug companies – such profoundly bad ideas?

    For one simple reason: they would fail to rein in health care costs’ out-of-control growth rate.

  • Published Why Health Insurers Don't Control Costs (Blog entry)
    June 10, 2009 - 9:50am

    In my prior two posts on health care reform, I described the debate now raging over whether establishing a new public health insurance option open to everyone should be expected to stimulate or kill competition and

    Published Vital Signs Weak: Competition In Health Insurance And Health Provider Markets (Blog entry)
    March 11, 2009 - 9:44am

    Republican attacks on President Obama’s proposal to give everyone the option of buying into a new Medicare-like public insurance plan have, as I suggested here, put ideological arguments about “Big Government” and “The Market

  • Published Who’s Afraid of Competition? (Blog entry)
    March 6, 2009 - 10:50am

    For opponents of President Obama’s health care reform efforts, there’s no greater rallying cry than “Competition!” Invariably, government is presumed to be competition’s sworn enemy. Yet strong government action is desperately needed to bring some competition over price and quality into the highly consolidated health insurance industry.

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  • Published Health Care Reform Now at a “Which Side?” Moment for Progressives (Blog entry)
    November 16, 2009 - 11:06am
    After a year’s arduous work on health care reform, some progressives are throwing up their hands in exasperation: what did we really get for all the struggle and strife? Should we even support it? According to critics, Democratic legislators have compromised too often and conceded too much. The bundle of policies we’re left with is deeply flawed – imperfect half-measures unable to deliver on any of our major goals. Why bother fighting, in the end, to secure passage of a reform that’s so weak? Voices like these have been a recurring feature of U.S. healthcare debate for decades. They tend to forget – improbably enough, for people who genuinely want to transform our screwed-up health care system – that only a political victory can change that system.
  • Published No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible (Blog entry)
    June 30, 2009 - 10:56am

    Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – cooperatives, state or regional plans, a “trigger” for the public plan, a public plan prohibited from bargaining with drug companies – such profoundly bad ideas?

    For one simple reason: they would fail to rein in health care costs’ out-of-control growth rate.

  • Published Why Health Insurers Don't Control Costs (Blog entry)
    June 10, 2009 - 9:50am

    In my prior two posts on health care reform, I described the debate now raging over whether establishing a new public health insurance option open to everyone should be expected to stimulate or kill competition and

    Published Vital Signs Weak: Competition In Health Insurance And Health Provider Markets (Blog entry)
    March 11, 2009 - 9:44am

    Republican attacks on President Obama’s proposal to give everyone the option of buying into a new Medicare-like public insurance plan have, as I suggested here, put ideological arguments about “Big Government” and “The Market

  • Published Who’s Afraid of Competition? (Blog entry)
    March 6, 2009 - 10:50am

    For opponents of President Obama’s health care reform efforts, there’s no greater rallying cry than “Competition!” Invariably, government is presumed to be competition’s sworn enemy. Yet strong government action is desperately needed to bring some competition over price and quality into the highly consolidated health insurance industry.

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