Why Reid Shouldn’t Include The Public Option In The Merged Senate Bill

Lawrence O’Donnell — who served as Senate Finance Committee staff director during the debate over President Clinton’s failed health care reforms — tells Politico’s Live Pulse that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) shouldn’t merge the Senate Finance Committee’s health bill with the HELP Committee’s far more progressive alternative. Sen. George Mitchell tried that in 1994 and Republicans went line-by-line successfully defeating the bill Full Story »

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by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Oct. 6, 2009

This is an intriguing piece detailing O'Donnell's historyical involvement; the who's who and the necesssary political game(s) that will be played in the passage of a health care plan.

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