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 »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Great article. It is not clear whether or not they are correct in their suggested strategy, but at least they are giving some good analysis of what may be going on behind closed doors.