Many liberals' long-held theory about the health care reform debate has, essentially, been confirmed in a new memoir: The White House cut a deal with interest groups early on to exclude a public insurance option. Thanks for telling everyone!
Harry Reid won a compromise between Senate Centrists and Senate Liberals: centrists killed the public option and liberals get the privilege of voting for something that they could argue resembles a public option, sort of.
The quiet death of the public option is quiet no longer. The Times is reporting that Democrats have reached a "tentative deal" to drop the public option from the Senate health care bill. Well, there's always Republicans, right? [NYT]
We were rather bullish on it before, but a government-run insurance option is now dead in the water.
Joe Lieberman knows the public option is a one way ticket to hell and will fight it to the death! Well, not really, but Ken Layne can always fantasize.
President Obama wants to save his precious, precious health care reform, and that means he will soon trot out in front of the television cameras to plead his case. And that case may include some concessions, including no public option.
