Wednesday, October 07, 2009 Public Option Alternatives

by Pooja Awatramani, Health Reform Watch

The public option has had a difficult time making its way through Senate Finance Committee mark-up sessions. In the past week, two separate proposals for including a public option in health care reform were nixed. Rejection of the plans, one proposed by Senator Charles Schumer of New York and the other by Senator John Rockefeller of West Virginia, is said to be indicative of a further adoption of the middle-of-the-road approach. Still, some are optimistic that because Obama has the de facto final say on health reform legislation, he will work hard to include a public option; others debate whether the President is willing to compromise the public option for overall reform.

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