Multistate Plan Program News Today

While the campaign to create a health care “public option” — a government health plan designed to compete against private health insurance — may have waned in Washington, D.C., this left-wing project is very much alive in some states.

While the campaign to create a health care “public option”—a government health plan designed to compete against private health insurance—may have waned in Washington, D.C., this left-wing project is very much alive in some states.     Following in Washington state’s footsteps, the Colorado and Nevada legislatures have recently passed laws creating state-based public option health care programs.  

If 3 states' schemes survive, left-wing champions of the health care "public option" in Washington will surely revive efforts in Congress. 

Rather than permitting the MSP program to live zombie-like on the statute books, Congress should at least give it a decent burial.