{"id":15192,"date":"2020-02-11T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15192"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:12:00","slug":"newsom-touts-californias-public-option-wait-what-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15192","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Touts California\u2019s \u2018Public Option.\u2019 Wait \u2014 What Public Option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ana B. Ibarra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are pitching a federal \u201cpublic option\u201d as a way to expand health coverage and make it more affordable.<\/p>\n<p>The details of their proposals vary, but\u00a0the general idea\u00a0is to create a government-sponsored plan that could compete with private insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a public option, just so folks know,\u201d California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed last month as he unveiled his proposed 2020-21 state budget. \u201cIt\u2019s called Covered California.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/newsom-touts-californias-public-option-wait-what-public-option\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ana B. Ibarra for Kaiser Health News) Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are pitching a federal \u201cpublic option\u201d as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-elections-healthcare-issues","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15193,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions\/15193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}