tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/22/2009
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If this is accurate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) gets a medal for prescience and Sen. Olympia Snowe's decision may be made for her. Two high profile conservative Democrats are saying they hear that Senate and White House health care negotiators are leaning toward including the public option in ...
politico.com - 10/22/2009
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politico.com —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the
White House are leaning towards including a national public option
-- with a provision for states to opt out of it -- in the Senate health care bill, Sen. Ben. Nelson (D-Neb.) said Thursday. ...
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Nelson: Reid, WH "leaning toward" public option
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 27 days ago
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
is poised to proceed with plans to introduce a
Senate health care bill with a public health insurance option that would allow states to opt out, a senior aide to Reid told CNN on Sunday. The ...
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Aide: Reid likely to include public option in Senate ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 24 days ago
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In another step forward for health care reform,
a key moderate Dem Senator says he will vote
to bring the bill with a public option and an opt-out to the floor — getting the bill past a key procedural vote — and suggested his colleagues ...
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Conrad: I Will Vote To Bring Health Care Bill To Debate, ...
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Talking Points Memo —
... that Sen. Snowe says she won't accept any compromise public option, specifically not a so-called 'opt-out' approach, there are new reports that the White House and Senate Democrats are now leaning toward including one in the senate bill, apparently a public option of the Schumer variety. ...
Snowe Opposes Op-Out Public Option (And Would Likely Filibuster It)
MyDD —
... I read this as a reasonably clear promise to filibuster a bill that contains an opt-out public option (and just as reports tell us that Reid is leaning toward just that provision). ...
ABC: Public Option Will be in Senate Bill, Baucus "Apoplectic"
Daily Kos —
... Mary Landrieu, who obviously doesn't read the news and is unaware of the most recent CBO scoring of the public option aside, this is guardedly good news, depending on who the "Democratic sources" are. But it does bolster a TPMDC story that consensus is emerging among moderates and in the White House toward the public option in the form of an opt-out, which is what Karl is reporting Reid wants to include. ...
Harry Reid and the public option
Crooks and Liars —
... On the morning of the meeting, anonymous sources--and even some high profile senators--came forward to say that Reid was leaning very heavily toward backing the public option. And that's the news he and other senators brought to the White House that night. ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 10/23/2009 — 'LEANING TOWARD' A PUBLIC OPTION.... Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) briefed Sen. Ben. Nelson (D-Neb.) and other Democratic "centrists" this morning on the status of the discussions merging the two Senate health care reform ...
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fivethirtyeight.com 9/30/2009 — The Senate Finance Committee today on two amendments which attempted to insert a public option into its health care bill. Both amendments failed. The first amendment, sponsored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, would have benchmarked the public option to ...
The other Nelson
washingtonmonthly.com 10/13/2009 — THE OTHER NELSON.... Generally, when supporters of health care reform express concerns over Senate Democrats, they point to Sen. Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska. But it's worth remembering that the other Nelson is worth keeping an eye on. Sen. Bill...
Public Option Outlook after Today
dailykos.com 9/30/2009 — One thing that that's clear from today's Finance Committee votes on the public option: Kent Conrad is the problem for the Dems. He provided the cover today for Lincoln, who was virtually invisible, to vote against the Schumer "level playing field" ...
Bill Nelson Says No to the Public Option “Opt-Out”
firedoglake.com 10/13/2009 —
Sen. Bill Nelson was on MSNBC with David Shuster talking about the AHIP
extortion attempt report about insurance premiums, which he rightly dismissed. (”You have to look at who produced the report. The insurance industry did.”) ...
Conrad Says He'll Vote Against The Public Option
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 8/14/2009 — Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)--one of six Finance Committee members writing that panel's health care reform bill--has been leading the charge for creating a system of regional private health care co-operatives instead of a public option. All along, he's ...
Conrad: I Only Trust the CBO When They Agree with Me
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 9/22/2009 — Throughout this entire health care reform debate, Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) has been the biggest advocate of the CBO. He demanded that CBO score health care reform over ten years . He also demanded the CBO must examine the bill and conclude that it ...
Nelson votes against public option
blogs.tampabay.com 9/29/2009 —
Sen. Bill Nelson just joined fellow members of the Finance Committee in voting down a public option health care proposal advanced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who insisted it was not a government takeover. "No," Nelson replied ...
Moderates plot to stop bill with public option —
First Read 10/22/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe and a bipartisan group of centrist senators is poised to stop the healthcare reform bill from even coming to the Senate floor if it contains the public option. Because 60 votes will likely ...
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