Schumer proposes public health plan

The Post-Star featured an article about U.S. Senator Charles Schumer's calls for a public health insurance plan option. As the article relates:

It’s not just the uninsured feeling the pain of the health care crisis anymore, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Thursday.
More than 750,000 New Yorkers who have health insurance still spend more than 25 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs.
"Unfortunately, health insurance — you seem to pay more and more, and it covers less and less. That would be the complaint that I hear as I travel around New York state," he said in a conference call with reporters.
One of the primary reasons for high health care costs is the lack of competition between health insurance plans, Schumer said.
Schumer wants to "inject competition" into the marketplace by establishing a public, nonprofit health plan that would compete with private plans.
The proposed plan would receive a one-time government subsidy to get started and would then be self-sufficient. Read more here.

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