I've concluded --with the support of the White House, Senators Dodd and Baucus -- that the best way to move forward is to include a public option with the opt-out provision for states. The public option, with an opt-out, is the one that's fair."
I don't know exactly how the opt-out would work, but it looks like it wouldn't:
Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican leader from Tennessee, said on the Senate floor Monday, in advance of Reid's announcement, that the opt-out provision isn't to be taken seriously. Medicaid, he noted, has an opt-out provision, but not one state has opted out. Public health insurance, in other words, is too popular for states to opt out.
Not that that is particularly bothersome to me.
I'd still rather see health care go in a different direction (once again, read this), but at least it is going in a direction.
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