The Public Option At Risk

By Jacob S. Hacker

Created 10/01/2009 - 1:44pm

In my interview with Laura Flanders of GritTV, I analyze the prospects for the public option in the Senate in the wake of the Senate Finance Committee's two votes against public option proposals this week.

I'm baffled, as I said in the interview, about how Democrats can think that it is good public policy to force Americans to buy private health insurance without doing anything to make sure that the health insurance is affordable.