Consumer Confidential: Is Biden's 'public option' for healthcare already dead?
Continuation of a divided Congress, with Republicans controlling the Senate and Democrats the House, would severely limit President-elect Joe Biden's legislative agenda.
It also would probably mean the demise of his most ambitious healthcare proposal: A "public option" insurance plan that would compete with private plans and possibly serve as a transitional step to "Medicare for all."
Although the U.S. Supreme Court indicated this week that it probably wouldn't overturn the Affordable Care Act, the upshot for ordinary Americans is that meaningful healthcare reform may be doomed to remain an aspiration rather than a long-overdue reality.
"It doesn't matter what party you're with, everyone agrees our healthcare system isn't working," said Martin Gaynor, a
