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Dr. Mark McClellan (former administrator of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services)

“You can’t have it both ways.  Either the government plan can get substantially lower costs by exerting power that other health plans don’t have. Or, if you go the other way, and you don’t give the public plan any special advantages, and you make sure it doesn’t get too big — in that case it’s not going to be any less costly.  So what’s the point?” – from an Associated Press article (July 6, 2009)

Tags: government plan, special advantages