Breaking The Stalemate On Public Option

Floor Speech

Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, we need to stop ranting and start reasoning. Health care providers have pushed against the public option, citing payment as one of their primary concerns. Instead of seeing the issue within the lens of payments based on Medicare rates versus negotiated ones, I believe we can attract health care providers to the public option with a new incentive to break the stalemate. Malpractice is a primary psychological, emotional issue with doctors, dentists, hospitals, administrators, and pharmacists.

Additionally, it is a principal issue of economic obsession with providers who bitterly resent paying for liability insurance. When it comes to you, it is not petty. If there is malpractice, you certainly want to contact an attorney.

Progressives have always championed community health centers. My proposal expands the liability program used by these community health centers.

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