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2009-06-12 12:37:16 UTC
Pelosi: Health Care Reform Without Public Option Will Not Pass the
House
Posted by Chris Bowers, Open Left at 1:04 PM on June 11, 2009.
Good. This is exactly the sort of line progressives must draw.
It appears that progressives are holding a hard line on the public
option in the House. Speaker Pelosi has now stated, on consecutive
days, that there are not enough votes in the House to pass a health
care reform bill without a public option:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Huffington Post Thursday that a
health care overhaul that did not include a public option wouldn't
make it through the House because it "wouldn't have the votes."(...)
Asked by HuffPost if she would allow a reform package without a public
option out of the House, she responded: "It's not a question of allow.
It wouldn't have the votes."
Good. This is exactly the sort of line progressives must draw.
Also, this almost certainly means that health care reform will be
passed through the reconciliation process. There simply are not 60
votes in the Senate to pass a public option. Since there are not
enough votes in the House to pass health care reform without a public
option, going through reconciliation is the only conceivable path at
this point.
House
Posted by Chris Bowers, Open Left at 1:04 PM on June 11, 2009.
Good. This is exactly the sort of line progressives must draw.
It appears that progressives are holding a hard line on the public
option in the House. Speaker Pelosi has now stated, on consecutive
days, that there are not enough votes in the House to pass a health
care reform bill without a public option:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Huffington Post Thursday that a
health care overhaul that did not include a public option wouldn't
make it through the House because it "wouldn't have the votes."(...)
Asked by HuffPost if she would allow a reform package without a public
option out of the House, she responded: "It's not a question of allow.
It wouldn't have the votes."
Good. This is exactly the sort of line progressives must draw.
Also, this almost certainly means that health care reform will be
passed through the reconciliation process. There simply are not 60
votes in the Senate to pass a public option. Since there are not
enough votes in the House to pass health care reform without a public
option, going through reconciliation is the only conceivable path at
this point.