Life After the Death of the Public Option

FiveThirtyEight by Nate Silver | Aug. 16, 2009 (News Analysis)

From the President on downward, the White House now seems resigned to losing the fight over the "public option", a government-run insurance plan that would complete against private plans. It's time to re-assess the playing field in light of this development.Is the public option really dead? Full Story »

Posted by Kelly Garrett - via Peter Daou, FiveThirtyEight, Publish2 (Politics)

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Posted by: Posted by Kelly Garrett - Aug 16, 2009 - 4:26 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kelly Garrett - Aug 17, 2009 - 11:11 AM PDT
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 by Kelly Garrett - Aug. 17, 2009

A richly detailed summary of the political status of the public option.

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