Pelosi Echoes Schakowsky, Says People Will Have Choice Of Public Option

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Source: Talking Points Memo

Pelosi Echoes Schakowsky, Says People Will Have Choice Of Public Option
Brian Beutler | October 6, 2009, 2:07PM

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Speaking to a crowd of about 100 activists and reporters gathered outside the Capitol today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who insisted that health care reform legislation will include a public option.

Pelosi said the legislation would create an exchange "where people can go buy their insurance--and within that exchange we will be including a public option."

Last night on Charlie Rose, Pelosi said Blue Dog Democrats "have not been an obstacle to the public option."

"The question is: which form will it take?...Will it be according to Medicare rates, or will it be negotiated rates?" She asked, rhetorically. "That's really the fight."


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1. And the fight is also

who will be eligible for it? Will it be a limited public option available to only 5% of the population or the grand one originally envisioned with over a hundred million enrollees? The simplest solution, as always, remains: allow anyone to buy into Medicare.

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3. At least lower the age to 55, while reforming Advantage. Have GOP vote against Medicare after recent

piety.

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2. K&R

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4. If Pelosi can clearly state there will be a public option, why can't Obama? n/t

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5. Democrats busily pasting word 'Public Option' on anything they can get their hands on

the measure will be not the label, but the result