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  • 4 - What about Private Options?

  • Edited by Ganesh Sitaraman, Anne Alstott
  • Book:
    Politics, Policy, and Public Options
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 58-79
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    There is today considerable enthusiasm for public options, notably in the health care and banking sectors. A compromise between entirely private commercial provisions and wholly bureaucratic, tax-and-transfer government provisions, public options are designed to offer citizen-consumers greater choice and protection. In blending (rather than choosing between) market ordering and state welfare, government must cross over. Government officials must step out of their sovereign lane, forgoing legislative and regulatory tools in favor of commercial ones.