CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings October 14, 2015
With a compromise and it was called the private option. To make a long story short, it was about taking the Medicaid Expansion dollars that were available but using them to purchase private insurance on the Health Insurance exchange. This was a really innovative approach. It didnt mean that it passed easily. I think we had to take about six or seven votes mainly because extremes on both sides we were just hear about were pretty dug in on the issue. I will tell you even though we were able to pass the private option, there were members of both parties who lost elections as a result afterwards, ...