A2: Health Insurance

The Lansing State Journal publishes an op/ed piece by Kara Rumsey, who works for the advocacy group PIRGIM in Ann Arbor. Rumsey argues that there should be a public option for health care, in addition to private insurers. She writes: “The reality is that the public option will be well positioned to implement the type of smart cost controls that private insurers should have adopted long ago. It could create incentives for primary care and prevention; pay doctors for outcomes, not just the number of tests run and procedures performed; and create incentives for utilizing research on which treatments work best, silencing the hyperbolic sales pitches of drug company salesmen.” [Source]