Obama brings back public option
Just yesterday we wrote that Max Baucus (D-Mont) had finally circulated details of a Senate Finance Committee health care framework that would not include the so-called public option.
Then, in his speech before a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama put the public option back on the table.
To do otherwise would seem to have been political suicide for Obama. There’s little doubt that his healthcare platform had a lot to do with his winning the election, and he will bitterly disappoint those followers who are expecting some public plan in health care if he does not at least go down fighting for that cause. So it would seem that the injection of the public option into the mix was the least he could do.
But he did it.
So now, liberals are somewhat encouraged that some form of national health care might yet happen in a reasonable time frame, though it has been about 35 years since the decidely non-liberal Richard Nixon proposed it and of course others have after him.
For those who missed Obama’s speech or would simply like to see it again, we’ve embedded the full version below.
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