Reply #118: What's your source?

[johan helge]

From http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/americanhealthchoicesplan.pdf page 2: In Hillary's plan one can choose a "Public Plan Option Similar To Medicare".

Krugman (http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/opinion/20krugman.html?scp=3&sq=krugman+plot+against+medicare&st=nyt):

"The 2003 Medicare legislation created Part D, the drug benefit for seniors — but unlike the rest of Medicare, Part D isn’t provided directly by the government. Instead, you can get it only through a private drug plan, provided by an insurance company. At the same time, the bill sharply increased payments to Medicare Advantage plans, which also funnel Medicare funds through insurance companies."

Perhaps this means that only drug benefit for seniors is "outsourced". In any case, it's better to have universal health care "outsourced" than not having it at all - as is the case with Obama's plan (and his plan is no less "outsourced", is it?).