Sixteen senators calling for the public option to be in the senate-house compromise

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Sixteen Senators Now Calling For Vote On Public Option

Sixteen and counting.
Senators Barbara Boxer, Jack Reed and Tom Udall have all now signed the letter pushing for a reconcilation vote on the public option, the group organizing the push confirms, bringing the total of Senators now pushing for the vote to roughly a fourth of the Dem caucus.
That means the number of signatories to the letter, which calls on Harry Reid to allow a vote on the public option under reconcilation rules, has more than tripled in two days.
“Going from 0 to 4 to 14 senators on the record in 2 days?” Adam Green, a spokesman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, emails. “This is what momentum looks like.”
It’s unclear, however, where all this momentum is headed. The Dem leadership has signaled no appetite for taking such a vote.
And yet: Reid’s spokesman is on record saying that the Majority Leader supports the public option in general but doesn’t think this measure has the votes to pass. Which means that the higher the number of supporters for such a vote climbs, the more the pressure increases on the leadership to at least consider such a vote. In theory, at least.
What’s interesting here is that the range of Senators now signing the letter goes well beyond those who are conventional liberals or facing tough primary challenges. The ones to watch now: Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, neither of whom have taken a position on this.
Whatever the unlikelihood of this ever happening, it’s getting pretty interesting.
Update: Senators Lautenberg and Mikulski have now signed on, bringing the number to 16. I’ve edited the above to reflect that.
 
what are they doing to fix medicare/medicaid? and why don't these idiots just alter medicare by taking away the age bracket? probably because it would bankrupt medicare, but then that begs the question, how is it the public option won't then?
 
what are they doing to fix medicare/medicaid? and why don't these idiots just alter medicare by taking away the age bracket? probably because it would bankrupt medicare, but then that begs the question, how is it the public option won't then?

If you got rid of the age bracket, you'd have to double taxes on medicare to compensate. Obviously simply getting rid of it would be retarded.

The public option doesn't take public money, so it doesn't cost anything. It's a shot at insurance companies. If it comes with some serious cost lowering measures, that's one way to lower the price of healthcare: through competition.
 
If you got rid of the age bracket, you'd have to double taxes on medicare to compensate. Obviously simply getting rid of it would be retarded.

The public option doesn't take public money, so it doesn't cost anything. It's a shot at insurance companies. If it comes with some serious cost lowering measures, that's one way to lower the price of healthcare: through competition.

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what the hackles is wrong with you?
 
It does'nt really matter. A public option is an inevitability. Even if the reconciled bill does not have a public option there will be bench marks established that if not met will mandate a public option. What is important is getting the bill reconciled and on Obama's desk for signature. The important thing now is establishing the legal precedent.
 
If you got rid of the age bracket, you'd have to double taxes on medicare to compensate. Obviously simply getting rid of it would be retarded.

The public option doesn't take public money, so it doesn't cost anything. It's a shot at insurance companies. If it comes with some serious cost lowering measures, that's one way to lower the price of healthcare: through competition.

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what the hackles is wrong with you?

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It does'nt really matter. A public option is an inevitability. Even if the reconciled bill does not have a public option there will be bench marks established that if not met will mandate a public option. What is important is getting the bill reconciled and on Obama's desk for signature. The important thing now is establishing the legal precedent.
I could live with a government option, so long as there are no illogical constrictions on what a private plan may offer.....
 
they only need 50, your forgot the president of the senate can break a tie

Doesn't matter....Dems haven't been able to agree on a health plan for a year as it is, they aren't liable to change in a week....or a month....or a year.....as for Repubs?....well, we lost, we were just trying to get over it.....
 
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