BREAKING: Public Option Fails In Senate Committee

[stopbush]

updated 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways.

The two votes marked a victory for Montana Democrat Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee chairman, who is hoping to push his middle-of-the-road measure through the panel by week's end. It also kept alive the possibility that at least one Republican may yet swing behind the overhaul, a key goal of both Baucus and the White House.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33069014/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

[JuniperLea]

1. How many have been voted on, and how many are left?

I swear, no one knows how to keep score anymore.

[bluestateguy]

2. Let's just get the damn bill out of Baucus's fucked up committee

Fix it on the floor of the Senate or in conference committee. Nothing will move along until with get Baucus's fucked up committee away from this bill.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. No. Don't get this bill out of committee.

Kill it in committee. It's now irreparable.

[Zen Democrat]

8. That's just wrong. The Baucus committee has to pass a bill, but

once it goes to the full Senate, Baucus is out of power. Hope that happens this week!!!!!

The action is going to be in the joint committee after both houses pass a bill.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Really? Don't think anyone has heard.

:P

[DireStrike]

4. "NO PUBLIC OPTION" IS NOT "MIDDLE OF THE ROAD"

Full strength public option is the compromise from single-payer healthcare.


Anything less is a failure by the democrats, and a right-wing bill.

[Roc_Ingersol]

5. Time to dump these DINOS

Baucus, Conrad, Lincoln have to go.

It's funny how Baucus claims they don't have the votes but I believe they would have less without the public option.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. It's nice to know that, in spite of the demise of the GOP, we still have a two-party system

Blue Dogs vs. Progressives.

The Blue Dogs won today.