Sen. Maria Cantwell

Debate on Public Health Insurance Plan Explodes in Senate

The debate over whether to create a public insurance plan to compete with private plans is about to explode in the Senate Finance Committee. The stakes are high and so is the suspense. (Update 4 p.m. ET Tuesday: Public options voted down. See Patricia Murphy's report here). It's unclear what the outcome will be Tuesday when the committee, continuing work on its 10-year, $900 billion health reform bill, is scheduled to take up three versions of a public health insurance option. The panel has 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans. Anything less than a solid wall of Republican opposition to all three ...

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