The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality

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A solution to inequalities wherever we look in health care, secure retirement, education is as close as the public library Or the post office, community pool, or local elementary school Public options reasonably priced government provided services that coexist with private options are all around us, ready to increase opportunity, expand freedom, and reawaken civic engagement if we will only let them.Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition the public option Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public options yet they are seldom celebrated as such These government supported opportunities coexist peaceably alongside private options, ensuring equal access and expanding opportunity for all.Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott challenge decades of received wisdom about the proper role of government and consider the vast improvements that could come from the expansion of public options Far from illustrating the impossibility of effective government services, as their critics claim, public options hold the potential to transform American civic life, offering a wealth of solutions to seemingly intractable problems, from housing shortages to the escalating cost of health care.Imagine a low cost, high quality public option for child care Or an extension of the excellent Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees to all Americans Or every person having access to an account at the Federal Reserve Bank, with no fees and no minimums From broadband internet to higher education, The Public Option reveals smart new ways to meet pressing public needs while spurring healthy competition More effective than vouchers or tax credits, public options could offer us all fairer choices and greater security. Download The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality – kino-fada.fr Rating this book is difficult I want to give it 5 as it is an important subject, I agree with their conclusions, it is readable for a layperson and comprehensive BUT it ain t gonna convince anyone who does not agree Given the title, it s hard to imagine a conservative reader even picking up the book...A must read for anyone interested in a political middle ground in America.Sitaraman and Alstott expertly organize multiple major social issues into a workable plan that benefits Americans Books like this should start a c...It s a good book, a necessary book.It doesn t go into policy nitty gritty boring details, but gives enough of the reasons behind how a public option for many areas in our lives either work libraries, postal service or could w...

The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality
  • 19 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 296 pages
  • 0674987330
  • Ganesh Sitaraman
  • The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality