Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will include a public option that states can vote to opt out of in his version of the health care reform bill that could be unveiled as early as Wednesday. But that certainly hasn’t ended the debate in the Senate about what kind of public option may finally end up passing the upper chamber …
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Health Care: Public Option Smoke Signals
We are clearly at a very weird phase of this process, as David Kurtz explains here.
I’m not going to pretend I’ve got anything that resembles clarity, but I’m being told by a normally trustworthy source that at last night’s White House meeting, the President referred to the triggered public option as one of the ideas on the table …
Health Care: Of Triggers and Timing
As Kate notes in her story today, yesterday’s defeat of the public option by the Senate Finance Committee has focused a lot of attention on the next big test, which is Senator Olympia Snowe’s amendment to put the public option on a “trigger“–that is, to establish one only as a fallback if private insurance companies fail to create a …
Harry Reid: Trigger Happy
According to the Las Vegas Sun, the Senate Majority Leader thinks putting a trigger on the public option is “a pretty doggone good idea“:
The Public Option In Tonight’s Speech
Tonight, President Barack Obama will once again declare his preference for the so-called public insurance option, a cause célèbre for Congressional liberals and a deal breaker for many Senate moderates. But that’s about as far as the president will go. He won’t demand a public option. He won’t threaten a veto if he doesn’t get …