Liberal advocacy organizations wasted little time this week condemning Democratic leaders when news broke that a Senate deal had been struck to replace the public option with another proposal to help cover the uninsured.
The other bill, from the Senate Finance Committee, includes nonprofit cooperatives instead of a public option and is the proposal supported by Snowe.
It said the "preferred option" was a revised proposal with 2, 000 fewer homes than in the original one, following the government's decision to revoke the South East Plan.
Councillor Chris Watts, chairman of the Recreation Ground Trustees, believed the proposal was a real option.
The town's chamber of commerce said an alternative supermarket proposal was its preferred option.
Instead of a public option, the Senate Finance Committee proposal authorizes federal funds to create nonprofit insurance cooperatives.
If expanding these work-based visas is the only option then I fully endorse this proposal, but I think we can do better.
In efforts to bridge differences, the Finance Committee proposal dropped the public insurance option and a mandate for all employers to provide health coverage.
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We recognize the McConnell proposal as a potential fallback option -- not a preferred option, but a fallback option -- simply to get that done.
The authority has been pursuing a so-called BT-Lite option after members threw out a wider joint venture proposal before Christmas.
The lack of a public option concerns liberal Democrats, who say the Baucus proposal will make required health insurance coverage too expensive for some of the low- and middle-income families it is intended to help.
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It could choose the proposal Howard reported that would give executors the option of following either 2009 or 2010 law.
The proposal for a no-fee degree would provide another option - saving the government the expense of financial support, while allowing students and their families to avoid fees and student debt.
"If you see the Fed proposal the way it is, then unbundling is definitely an option, " says Chris McWilton, president of U.S. markets at MasterCard.
PAN's proposal, unveiled on August 20th after much dithering, is closer to option (c).
He stressed that there was "no option but to postpone merger" until Welsh society has a chance to respond to the proposal.
And one of them very much is the proposal outlined by Senator McConnell, because it has to be there as an option to ensure that we do not get into a situation where we can no longer borrow and risk default.
Republicans say the proposal is too ambitious and expensive, even though it drops a government-run public health insurance option that they unanimously oppose.
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