Legal Commentary

Blue Dog Opposition To Public Option Crumbling?

By Big Tent Democrat

Ryan Grim:

The Blue Dogs have been surveying their membership over the last several days; coalition co-chair Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.) has been collecting the responses. She listed the four top priorities that have emerged: Keeping the cost under $900 billion, not moving at a faster pace than the Senate, getting a 20-year cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office and addressing regional disparities in Medicare reimbursement rates. So, the Huffington Post asked, the public option is not a top priority? "Right, the group is somewhat split," she said.

Good news. Now, to the fight to insure it is a robust public option continues. Grim has more info on that at the link.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).