Progressive Public Option

[YocumRidge]

Finally the Progressives have evolved from the invertebrate state and got a tiny spine... A few more tens of millions of years of evolution and, who knows, we may live to see the Progressive Tyrannosaurus rex!!!

 

"Democratic leaders were forced to include a national public health insurance option as part of health care reform by progressive Democratic senators who refused to support anything less, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Monday.

 

Durbin's assessment was made to a handful of reporters following the announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that after weeks of talks with his colleagues he had determined that including a public option that states could opt out of was the best way to go."

 

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/durbin-progressives-force_n_334438.html