Progressive Democrats Attempt to Revive the Public Health Insurance Option

A group of 129 progressive House of Representatives Democrats, seeking to revive the public option, introduced legislation on July 22 to establish a public health insurance plan that would compete with private health insurers. It is highly unlikely that the House will vote on the legislation this year. Republicans and some moderate Democrats remain strongly opposed to the public option, and Democratic leaders have little interest in reigniting the divisive health care reform debate before the November elections.

Supporters of the Public Option Act (H.R. 5808) claim that the legislation would sharply reduce the federal deficit.

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I received an email today from the great website http://democracyforamerica.com, which is seeking to not save health reform, though this is a great idea, but to save the public option.  Health reform without a public option will make the health insurance companies rich but do nothing to control rising health care costs.

I am asking you to donate money if you support health reform to this great organization.  Perhaps you need to read how much money the health care industry has dumped into defeating the bill.

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After Senator Durbin announced that Senate Leadership would get the votes needed to pass any reconciliation bill sent to the Senate from the House — even if it included a public option — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats spent all weekend still claiming that the Senate doesn’t have the votes.

The Senate has 51 votes for a public option and we can prove it.