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Article: New Report: Public Insurance Option Needed to Provide Affordable, Quality Health Coverage; Health Care Reform Debate Centers on Public Insurance Choice; Report Shows Public Plan Essential to Contain Costs, Improve Quality and Drive Value.(Report)
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- AScribe Business & Economics News Service
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- December 17, 2008
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Byline: University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (Boalt Hall)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new public health insurance plan that competes directly with private insurers is essential to controlling health care costs and improving the quality of care, according to a new report released today by the Institute for America's Future and the UC Berkeley School of Law's Center on Health, Economic & Family Security. The report, by health care expert and UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker, says a public health insurance plan like Medicare offered together with private health plans could result in $1 trillion in national savings over ten years by ...