Growing Momentum for Public Option

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Robert Creamer: Growing Momentum for Public Option

Political organizer, strategist and author

In a surprising vote Tuesday, ten Democrats voted to add a public option to the most conservative of the five health insurance reform bills working their way through Congress. That's just two votes short of passage. This robust support for the public option -- in what most observers consider the most conservative committee in the Senate -- signals a sea change in Congressional opinion toward the public option. The odds are now very high that some form of public health insurance option will be included on the final bill


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[CurtEastPoint]

1. I don't hold out hope until we have our own (pardon the analogy) tea parties.

IN FORCE! Show those jerks that we mean business. However in the hell are we going to get the corporate stranglehold over congress destroyed?

[Doctor_J]

4. Complete with guns and effigies of right-wing congress

we're not going to get anywhere playing nice with these bullies.

[polichick]

2. Well, that's an optimistic take! nt

[rgbecker]

3. Each person reads the tea leaves differently.....Makes for an interesting world. n/t

[impik]

5. I happen to agree

It will happen.