Yahoo Finance, Tech Ticker, March 19, 2010 Host Henry Blodget
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This is absolutely comprehensive and crucial healthcare reform. In the absence of doing anything, our healthcare costs will go out of control. What the healthcare reform bill will do is not to absolutely decrease costs, but to bring down the rate of increase.

-San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 2009 by Victoria Colliver
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“If somebody is going to say the public plan option is socialism, then that person is the same person who would think Medicare is socialism,” said Melissa Rodgers, associate director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security, explaining that Medicare retains the same hybrid of a plan administered by the government but delivered by private enterprise as the public option.

-Youth Radio, August 20, 2009 by Emily Beaver
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A public health insurance plan would be one option for people who don’t have insurance, or don’t have insurance that covers their medical needs, Rodgers says…. In the individual market, nothing prevents insurers from denying participants coverage or charging high prices, Rodgers says. “The individual market is the wild, wild west of insurance,” she says.

San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2009 by Melissa A. Rodgers
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Policymakers in Washington risk falling into the same pitfalls that brought down reform efforts in California. Last week’s release of the surprising cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office was an eerie reminder of the California challenges. In addressing the health care crisis quickly and boldly, national leaders would do well to heed the lessons that California’s health care debate offers.