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 Judith Bello - Oct. 6, 2009

This is an opinion piece with validating facts. I don't know if I agree, but it clearly lays out the strategy the author is recommending and a logical reason to use it. As such it is well done. I don't know anything about the website it comes from.

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