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On March 9th, Representative Alan Grayson of Florida introduced the Public Option Act:
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an option for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States to buy into Medicare.
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This Act may be cited as the `Public Option Act' or the `Medicare You Can Buy Into Act'.
It's extremely simple: It just adds a short section to the law governing Medicare, that says that anyone who is a US resident and either a citizen or legal permanent resident, may enroll for Medicare, and pay a premium as determined by actuaries based on their age group (divided into 10-year cohorts).
As of today, the bill has 80 co-sponsors, including half of the Massachusetts delegation:
MA-1: John Olver
MA-3: Jim McGovern
MA-4: Barney Frank (one of the original cosponsors)
MA-8: Mike Capuano
MA-10: Bill Delahunt
What about the other half? Neal, Markey, Tierney, Tsongas, Lynch ... do you live in one of their districts? Call, ask them if they'll sign on as co-sponsors, and comment here to tell us what they said.
