Progressives Successfully Pressure Reid on Public Option
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Reid speaks about healthcare on Capitol Hill in WashingtonSource: Reuters -
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- News Source: Belleville News-Democrat | 27 days agoAmid signs that health care overhaul legislation will do little to slow the growth in health care spending in the coming decade, lawmakers and Obama administration officials are considering tougher steps to rein in soaring budget deficits. One...
- News Source: Fox News | 27 days agoIndependent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman said Tuesday that he would back a Republican filibuster against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care reform bill if a government-backed insurance plan remains in the package. The announcement is...
- News Source: Politico | 27 days agoLieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of...
- News Source: The Hill | 27 days agoBut he said he would not lend his support to an effort to cut off debate on a bill including a government-run insurance program. Lieberman said he told Reid of his position in a recent conversation and that the leader “respected and understood....
- News Source: Seattle Times | 27 days agoSen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said Tuesday she still can't support a government-funded insurance option, a day after legislation was unveiled that would give states the choice of whether to participate in the program...Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.,...
- News Source: Star Tribune | 27 days agoAnti-abortion activist Randall Terry is calling on people to burn effigies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this Halloween, as part of a "Burn in Hell" video contest to protest the health care legislation in...
- Blog Source: www.lasvegasnow.comHarry Reid's health care plan to the Senate floor for debate, he would ultimately oppose the measure because it includes a public option. Lieberman said Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that he's worried a ...
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comDr. Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that she had "personally been quite persuaded that the public option can be an important source of cost growth containment," during a speech at the Center for American Progress. ...
- Blog Source: www.demconwatchblog.comAt 3:15 Majority Leader will be holding a press conference, and he is expected to announce that the Senate bill will contain a public option that includes an opt-out provision for states. Which means he's lost Olympia Snowe's vote. ...
- Blog Source: senatus.wordpress.comReid to Include Public Option 'Opt-out' in Health Bill. October 26, 2009 by senatus. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “will announce this afternoon that he plans to push ahead with a public option vote — one that includes an opt-out ...
- Blog Source: www.rhrealitycheck.orgIn a press conference at 3:15 pm today on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the Senate will include an "opt-out" public option in its version of the health care reform bill. States would have the ability to ... Women , the New
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comThe public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in.
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@markknoller Just before photo op, Obama warned intell officers: "if anybody asks you for your opinions on the public option, you have nothing to say."
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@thenote Hard Counts: There’s a big ‘I’ in ‘Win’ as Reid shops for votes: Surely Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid didn'.. http://bit.ly/wsPMO
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@JoeNBC @FTLslacker Nope. My "trigger" sources (and Chuck Todd's and Huffpost's) inside the WH knew Reid would face these issues if he ignored them.
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@jacksonjk Public option by another name? http://bit.ly/3fbNjJ
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@JoeNBC NYTimes: Reid proposal divides Democrats. http://bit.ly/2UNplI
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@JoeNBC @jccosta An "Opt In" public option would allow states the choice to adopt a public option plan. I think many would take it.
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@JoeNBC @jccosta I think an "Opt In" public option for the states may pull in senators like Carper (and possibly) Lieberman.
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@JoeNBC Senator Schumer on Morning Joe today re: Afghanistan and the effort to pass the Public Option.http://bit.ly/2pgn0
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@JoeNBC @Dovescorner While I oppose the public option, to call it a complete government takeover of health care is misleading.
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@pmintz Behind Harry Reid's Bid for Public Option: http://bit.ly/ziqow
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