tnr.com - 10/27/2009
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By now you've heard the news: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be including an "opt-out" variation on the public plan in the health care bill he brings to the Senate floor.
It is not a full public option. It will not use reimbursements pegged to Medicare. As Ezra Klein ...
time.com - 10/27/2009
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time.com —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided he
has the votes to get a health reform bill...
with a public option to the Senate floor. Does he have the votes it will take to get it out of the Chamber?
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Will Reid's Public Option Health Gamble Pay Off?
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/27/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
I made two predictions this summer that look
like they're not going to turn out very well....
One was saying that the unemployment rate wouldn't hit 10 percent (it hasn't yet, although it probably will) and the other was saying that the public option was ...
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On Being Wrong About the Public Option
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/27/2009
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After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's big public
option opt-out reveal yesterday, the major players are looking...
pretty unified. Check out all the reactions we posted at TPMLiveWire yesterday and see what they have in common, as Senate ...
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Change Of Tune: Leadership, Progressives, Advocacy ...
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Bye, Bipartisanship: Reid’s gambit forces centrists to choose sides
The Note —
... "Make no mistake: The centrists have the power to kill the public option. And they may still wield it," The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn writes. But "progressives have influence. And if progressives have influence, they may yet prevail on this issue. After all, they've been counted out before." ...
D. Brad Wright: Health Reform: Cocktail Party Edition
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Just days ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the version of the health care bill that makes it to the Senate floor for a vote will include a public plan option that allows states to "opt-out" if they so choose. This was big news given that the Finance bill included no such option. Reid really appears to be asserting himself in the process, but as Jonathan Cohn writes, there are still plenty of centrist Democrats who can sink even this "watered-down" public option. ...
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Ark. Senator Says She Still Opposes Public Option
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Ark. Senator Says She Still Opposes Public Option
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End Game: So When Will Health Care Really Happen?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/27/2009 — Yesterday's events have given health care new momentum, but advocates are a long way from popping champagne.
There remain unanswered questions about how the proposed Senate bill and public option opt-out will be structured, along with questions ...
Senate Bill Will Include
foxnews.com 10/26/2009 — Home Senate Bill Will Include 'Public Option' Opt Out Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Senate legislation will include government-backed health insurance that allows states to opt out, but it's "not a silver bullet" FOXNews.com ...
Why the White House Probably Doesn’t Want a Public Option
seminal.firedoglake.com 10/21/2009 —
The question many health reform advocates have been asking about the public option debate is “what’s the problem???” Why isn’t the President demanding it, pushing it, selling it? Well, maybe he doesn’t want it.
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Senate healthcare bill includes public option —
Reuters: Politics 10/27/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Monday the Senate's healthcare overhaul will include a government-run insurance plan that lets states opt out, handing liberals an early victory on the bill's most contentious issue.
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