On CNBC earlier today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) gave Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) a lesson in the health care policy.
Republicans are fond of the line of critique which holds that employers will take advantage of the creation of a public option to drop their insurance coverage and pay the penalty, “forcing” their employees into the public option. To do this, they often cite a flawed study by the Lewin Group–a research center owned by the giant insurer Wellpoint.
But as Wasserman-Schultz articulates, that’s not how the policy is set up. If employers drop their coverage, they’ll have to pay into insurance exchanges, where their employees will be able to shop around for insurance plans, including, perhaps, but certainly not limited to, a public option.
Somehow, though, I doubt Pence will take this simple policy lesson to heart.
