House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, also indicated last week that a public option is a must.
CNN: Obama, Democrats urged to find unity on health care reform
The HELP Committee's bill includes a public option, while the Finance Committee's does not.
The public option is the best of both worlds because it is an OPTION.
Friends, a cooperative healthcare device is the public option just with a better poll tested name...
That is the so-called public option, which they say would compete with private insurers.
But if the public option dies, some kind of health-care reform is more likely to survive.
At some point those who support a public option must realize it's not going to happen.
The deal was intended to address concerns by some centrist Democrats over the public option.
Republicans reject the concept, saying the public option would drive private insurers out of the market.
Other Democratic senators say the only public option they're interested in would be run by each state.
The Obama administration is signaling that the "public option" may not be needed in the healthcare plan.
Republicans unanimously oppose a public option, describing it as step toward a government takeover of health care.
CNN: Key senator says Obama should drop public health care option
While he became a strong proponent for universal coverage, for example, he remained ambivalent about the public option.
Of five health care bills approved so far by House and Senate committees, four include a public option.
Still, Landrieu sounds as if she could eventually be persuaded to back some form of a public option.
And then there's Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman, a member of the Democratic caucus who opposes a public option.
The sticking point is the so-called public option which would provide a government-funded alternative to private health insurance.
Instead of a public option, the Senate Finance Committee proposal authorizes federal funds to create nonprofit insurance cooperatives.
It is about differences in ideology on the public option and abortion that has slowed down the bill.
Too much is riding on the bill, Durbin says, to risk it sinking under the added weight of a public option.
But no decision has been made yet, because it's not clear how many Democrats would back a public option.
Conservative blogger Erick Erickson, of Red State, starts mobilising against the Democrats' proposed alternative to the public option.
If you equate health care reform with a public option, then, well, health care reform is dead to you.
"If it doesn't have a public option, it's not a bill, " Burris says.
There were conflicting reports about whether the deal jettisons the public option altogether.
The biggest advance came late on December 8th, when news surfaced of a breakthrough deal on the public option.
The Health Committee included a form of the public option in its bill, while the Finance Committee did not.
Yes, many progressives are already furious at giving up the beloved public option.
The biggest sticking point so far has been the idea of a government-funded public option to compete with private insurers.
应用推荐