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Progressive Block Forced Public Option into Senate Bill
Open Left - Front Page —
Senator Dick Durbin, who was in charge of counting votes on the health care merger in the Senate, is now saying that the public option was included in the Senate bill because of a Progressive Block of Senators who refused to support a health care bill otherwise. From The Huffington Post:
Democratic leaders were forced to include a national public health insurance option as part of health care reform by progressive Democratic senators who refused to support anything less, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Monday.
Durbin's assessment ...
Durbin: Progressives Forced Our Hand On The Public Option
TPM Election Central —
... Durbin told Ryan Grim of Huffington Post and a handful of other reporters that Reid may very well have chosen to put Olympia Snowe's trigger compromise in the bill "[i] we thought that just putting the trigger in meant that we'd end with 61 votes." ...
Will Reid's Decision Push the House Leftward?
The New Republic blogs —
Many liberals are hailing Senate Majority leader Harry Reid s decision to pick the opt-out version of the public option over the trigger as a progressive victory. Representative Lynn Woolsey, co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus agrees--and thinks there s no reason the House shouldn t go even farther, and include a strong public option in its bill. Of course, we already know the House bill will be stronger than even the version that Reid endorsed today. It will be a national plan, with all states participating from the start. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi has yet to ...
Not Time To Send Harry Reid Any Donations Yet-- Just a Hearty Pat On The Head So Far
DownWithTyranny! —
... with a decent timeline and neither an opt in nor a deadly Snowe Trigger. Durbin says progressive senators were organized enough to make it clear that without a public option, they couldn't support a bill that would have, in effect, just bolster the bottom lines of the avaricious bad faith insurance giants. Watch him above. ...
Durbin: Progressives Forced Our Hand On Public Option
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... and conservative-leaning senators who have been scoring legislative victories by digging in their heels, so this represented a quite dramatic turnabout. It is difficult to remember the last time that progressives won a legislative victory by laying down firm demands and sticking to them. In the House, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has found its feet, too, and is locked in a final battle with conservative Democrats over the shape of a public option. ............... Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/durbin-progres...
Health Care Reform: The Day After
Delaware Liberal —
... attempting to spend their way out of our nation’s economic crisis with little thought or regard to the debt being passed on to future generations.“One thing is clear though – Harry Reid and his Democrat colleagues who decide to bow to pressure from the left and continue to rubber-stamp this liberal, partisan agenda of Washington-run health care and reckless government spending will be held accountable by voters next November.” Harry Reid is such a big meanie. And, oh yeah, SOCIALISM! In case their was any doubt, Dick Durbin says that the inclusion of the public option was due to ...
When progressives make progress
Political Animal —
... extremely tricky, and the majority continues to run into overwhelming opposition from conservatives. All the while, the Democratic base kept making demands, mobilizing support, coordinating with like-minded lawmakers, and fighting for every inch of reform real estate. There's still a sizable chasm between where we are now and the finish line, but it's worth taking a moment to acknowledge that the relative strength of the Senate reform plan is, at least part, due to the tireless work of progressive activists and their allies on the Hill. Democratic leaders were forced to ...
The WonkLine: October 27, 2009
Wonk Room —
... “Democratic leaders were forced to include a national public health insurance option as part of health care reform by progressive Democratic senators who refused to support anything less, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Monday.” ...
Progressives Win One, But Will Obama Listen?
Taylor Marsh —
... Give yourselves a pat on the back.
Then get back to work. It’s not over by a long shot, but this win is huge.
Read Ryan Grim, who along with Sam Stein and the Huffington Post’s blaring “Leaderless” headline on Sunday may have been the final straw. After all, it’s not every day the White House pushes back on a Sunday night. Grim:
Democratic leaders were forced to include a national public health insurance option as part of health care reform by progressive ...
Neither Reid nor Pelosi have the Votes
RedState —
... Senator Durbin (D-IL), the U.S. Senate Majority Whip said yesterday that the left forced the Democrat’s hand, and we’ll “see where we come out.” (H/T Huffington Post.) Sen. Durbin did not say: we have the votes, we will win, but he said, we’ll see — read: we do not have the votes and don’t know if we will get the votes because we have not written the bill yet, nor have we scored it. ...
Insurance Stocks Plunged As Reid Announced Public Option, Spiked After Lieberman Vowed To Filibuster It
Think Progress —
... , progressives cheered the move. As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted, without all the pressure that progressives in and out of Congress put on legislators, it is unlikely there would have been a public option included in Reid’s final bill. ...
