MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports August 17, 2009
is "not an essential element," and some has interpreted that as the white house distancing itself and trying to prepare everyone for the notion that health care reform might not include a public option. but for those of us that hang on every word, that's not altogether surprising. this co-op idea is the one a lot of us expected to come out of the senate finance committee and be part of any bipartisan deal that would be struck. >> but the bottom line is that the senate won't go for the public option and the house says, at least, that it won't go for anything that does not include the ...