insurance market reforms

This post was originally published on our old Wordpress site. Both the Washington Post and the New York Times report that the Obama administration is signaling a new willingness to jettison the public plan element of healthcare reform legislation. Jonathan Cohn at The Treatment questions whether anything’s really changed, though, because Obama has consistently praised the public option as a good idea without insisting that it be included in the final bill. As the summer has worn on and Congressional committees have come out with specific proposals, healthcare reform supporters are getting a…