Solid coverage of the political battle over a public health plan yesterday in The Hill, which reported that Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) emerged from a closed-door meeting to state “unequivocally that his bill will include the so-called public plan option. ‘I think a bill that passes the Senate will have some version of a public option,’ he said.”
“Republicans were equally adamant that they could never support such a program,” The Hill reported, quoting Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) stating, ”Our caucus is very, very much against a public option…And that’s all you can say. There’s no follow-up questions you can ask me, there’s no further statements I can make about it.”
The comments come a day after the White House released a letter President Obama sent to Baucus and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) reiterating his strong support for the public option (see prior post). The Hill also quotes Grassley stating that Obama’s letter “wasn’t helpful. Words make a difference and it made a difference.”
Word.
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