The public option: It’s baaack – Articles – Employee Benefit Adviser
Fittingly close to Halloween, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) resurrected the possibility of a government-run insurance option when he announced on October 26 that he intends to include in the Senate bill a public plan with the option for states to opt out.
The move was not a surprise to EBA’s health reform panelists who have been reading the tea leaves in the past few weeks. “Once Sen. Snowe talked about the opt-out in a favorable manner, I thought that this would be in the Senate bill. It also looks like the Senate liberals, like Sen. Rockefeller, can live with the opt-out,” says Bill Sweetnam, principle with Washington, D.C.’s Groom Law Group.
The public option: It’s baaack – Articles – Employee Benefit Adviser
