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

Think Progress by Igor Volsky | Oct. 5, 2009 (Opinion)

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 Fabrice Florin - Oct. 6, 2009

Interesting opinion about tactics which might help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid push through a 'public option' bill through the final 'conference' reconciling House and Senate health care bills. Though largely speculative, this article helps us understand how the political process works in Congress, and how democrats and republicans are scheming to win the health care reform fight.

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