-San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 2009 by Victoria Colliver
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/17/MNT4198FQ4.DTL&type=printable
“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
http://www.youthradio.org/news/tenhealthcareterms
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.