[FairfieldLife] Senate Health Care Bill Likely to Include Public Option

[do.rflex]

ABC News reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is leaning 
toward including the creation of a new government-run insurance program -- the 
so-called public option -- in the health care reform bill he will bring to the 
full Senate in the coming weeks.

After meeting with Democratic moderates, Reid has concluded he can pass a bill 
with a public option.

Though some are still opposed the idea, Reid is now convinced that Democratic 
critics of the public option will support him when it counts -- on the 
procedural motion, which requires 60 votes, to defeat a certain GOP-led 
filibuster of the bill. Once the filibuster is beaten, it only takes 51 votes 
to pass the bill.

Democratic critics of the public option would get a chance to go on-the-record 
with their opposition by voting for an amendment to strip it from the health 
care bill.  Under Senate rules, such an amendment would need 60 votes to pass.  
And while there may not be 60 votes in favor of a public option, there are also 
not 60 votes against it.  So, it would remain in the bill.

http://snipurl.com/snwtw   [politicalwire_com] 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Senate Health Care Bill Likely to Include Public Option

[It's just a ride]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote:


 ABC News reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is leaning 
 toward including the creation of a new government-run insurance program -- 
 the so-called public option -- in the health care reform bill he will bring 
 to the full Senate in the coming weeks.

 After meeting with Democratic moderates, Reid has concluded he can pass a 
 bill with a public option.


OK, Obama didn't play this one the way LBJ would have, trading pork
barrel for votes.  But Obama's been a legislator, first at the state
level then at the federal level.  He just might have had an idea
things would turn out this way.