tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/7/2009
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In recent days, Senate Democratic leadership, and even the White House have been sounding a bit more bullish on the public option than they had in recent weeks. Majority Leader Harry Reid even went so far as to say that 'some kind' of public option will be in the Senate bill at the end of the ...
dailykos.com - 10/8/2009
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dailykos.com —
There are competing state-based public options in the
news today. The first, and the one rumored to...
be favored by Senate leadership to create a weak public option when the SFC and HELP bills are merged is allowing states to create their own public ...
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State-Based "Public Options" Gaining Steam
firedoglake.com - 10/7/2009
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firedoglake.com —
I'm hearing from sources about a letter to
Harry Reid from a collection of liberal Senators, led...
by Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Sherrod Brown, insisting that Reid publicly commit to putting a public option in any health care bill that reaches the ...
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Rockefeller, Brown, Boxer to Push Reid on Including ...
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Rockefeller, Brown, Boxer to Push Reid on Including Public Option in Senate Bill Today
Firedoglake —
... option supporters in the Senate about wanting to see it in the final bill, but, to my knowledge, this is the furthest it has gone. Some Senators, like Sen. Boxer, are going on the record insisting on a public option for the first time. Of course we don't know what form this "public option" will take - the Wall Street Journal reports today that Tom Carper's state-based approach is gaining support among Senate moderates, and Debbie Stabenow in a press conference today confirmed that this is a possibility: ...
Nevada's program would be especially fair, efficient and adequate
Las Vegas Gleaner —
... And of particular local interest, perhaps, is a notion whereby instead of a robust, truly competitive national public option, the health care bill would provide for the establishment of state-based public option plans. ...
State-Based "Public Options" Gaining Steam
Daily Kos —
... There are competing state-based public options in the news today. The first, and the one rumored to be favored by Senate leadership to create a weak public option when the SFC and HELP bills are merged is allowing states to create their own public options. ...
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