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White House Willing to Negotiate Public Option

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“It is more important that health-care legislation inject stiff competition among insurance plans than it is for Congress to create a pure government-run option, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Monday. ‘The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest,’ he said in an interview. ‘The goal is non-negotiable; the path is’ negotiable.” (Wall Street Journal [1], Tuesday)

Should we assume the definition of “competition” is also negotiable?

FEE Timely Classic
“Monopoly Government [2]” by Thomas DiLorenzo

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[1] Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124692407982802911.html

[2] Monopoly Government: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/monopoly-government/

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