With the rejection in the Senate Finance Committee of two separate proposals to create a substantial public health insurance option and, instead, the approval of the relatively weak co-op proposal (which the CBO estimates to be unlikely to establish a meaningful presence and will result in only half the budget amount of $6 billion will be spent) it seemed as though the public option had breathed its last breath. However, new developments indicate that the public option, in various forms, is still alive.
Senator Schumer (D-NY), having failed to pass his “level playing ...
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