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Friday Health Plans and Bright Health Group have flopped as health insurance companies. Their troubles are causing ripple effects throughout the healthcare system.

Let’s be clear about the fact that nobody has proposed anything close to a government takeover of health care. —President Barack Obama, August 20, 2009 Millions of Americans are expected to enroll in Obamacare’s national system of health insurance exchanges.[1] And, for those seeking—or forced—to buy health insurance through these exchanges, the coverage will be “private” in name only.

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. 

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Best’s Special Report: U.S. Life/Health Insurance Impairments Fall by More Than Half in 2020 April 15, 2021 GMT OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 15, 2021-- Four U.S. life/health insurance company impairments occurred in 2020, down significantly from 10 in the prior year, according to a new AM Bestspecial report. The Best’s Special Report, titled, “2020 U.S. Life/Health Impairments Update,” ...