Presumably because someone at the NYT doesn't like it. Obviously, there are pragmatic reasons for not including a public plan -- like the power of the insurance industry to block reform, but it is not clear why the NYT decided that supporting a mechanism that is widely recognized as controlling costs is ideology.
--Dean Baker
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