Blog Debate Wrap-up

Published March 14, 2009 @ 08:33PM PT

All this week, this site hosted a blog debate about what approach we should take on health care reform in 2009. Dr. Don McCanne, a retired family physician now serving as Senior Health Policy Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, represented the "single-payer" point of view and Jason Rosenbaum, a writer and activist, and the Deputy Director of Online Campaigns for Health Care for America Now!, represented the "public competitor" point of view.

For ease of navigation, the posts for all four days of the debate are listed below.

Question 1: “How does your solution help us get the runaway train that is the cost of health care in this country under control?”

Read the response by Jason Rosenbaum

Read the response by Dr. Don McCanne

Read Jason Rosenbaum's rebuttal

Question 2: "Is there anything valuable that private insurance brings to the table which, with far more muscular federal regulation, would enhance an American universal health care system?"

Read the response by Dr. Don McCanne

Read the response by Jason Rosenbaum

Read Dr. McCanne's rebuttal

Question 3: "What are these plans doing to ensure there are enough physicians, particularly primary care practitioners, to cover the huge new influx of patients with coverage?"

Read Jason Rosenbaum's response

Read Dr. Don McCanne's response

Read Jason Rosenbaum's rebuttal

Question 4: "How can we ensure that if we get a reform bill out of the Senate at all, that it achieves quality, affordable health care for all Americans?"

Read Dr. Don McCanne's response

Read Jason Rosenbaum's response

Read Dr. Don McCanne's rebuttal

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Tim has been an online organizer and blogger on health care policy for the Obama for America campaign (during the primaries) and currently for the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, a labor union for intern and resident doctors. Views expressed here are Tim's, and don't represent the positions of CIR or SEIU.