Health Care Financing Reform: (47) Harry Reid to Push Public Option with Opt-Out for States

     At 3:15 today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that the bill he will send to the floor of the Senate will include both the "public option" as contained in the Senate HELP Committee bill and the "co-ops" proposed in the Senate Finance Committee bill.  The bill will also give individual states the power to opt out of the public option.  He is sending the bill to the CBO for scoring.

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