RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Nearly two decades ago, progressives fought to include a so-called public option — a government-run health plan — in the broad health care overhaul known as Obamacare. That ...

More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada's new public-option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those ...

The “public option” for health insurance, as defined by the 111th Congress, grew from roots planted in California in 2001. Progressives supported it as a voluntary transition toward single-payer ...

Even as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need ...

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, candidates raced to distinguish themselves over their approach to health insurance policy. More progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders said they ...

The following information was released by Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin: U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced the ...

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When it comes to Nevada's health insurance marketplace, brokers play a crucial role. But many of these licensed professionals — whose job it is to help clients find and compare insurance coverage — ...

If conservatives seem ridiculously hyperbolic about what the public option does and does not do–it does not, for example, increase costs (it could decrease them) or mean a government takeover of ...

This week, alert readers asked us how we were rating President Barack Obama's stance on the public option. That's a promise, right? they asked. Well, no. We looked in our Obameter database for a ...