The Baucus plan does some good things, including requiring insurance companies to sell all customers the same policy and ending industry practices that deny care for spurious reasons.
It falls short in holding down insurance costs because there's no public option to compete with private insurers.
... It seems to us, though, that the public option is a more streamlined way to achieve reform's goals than a new bureaucracy to police 50 state insurance markets to be sure that insurers aren't illegally denying coverage and cherry-picking customers.
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