Speaker Pelosi:

I’m quite sad that a public option isn’t in there. But it isn’t a case of it’s not in there because the Senate is whipping against it. It’s not in there because they don’t have the votes to have it in there. [...] We had it. We wanted it. They didn’t have it. It’s not in the reconciliation.

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UPDATE: By now, it is assumed in Washington that Pelosi’s stance is the stuff of Senate influence. But all is apparently not lost, however. Other lawmakers are apparently considering other measures in the House to assure some sort of government-financed proposal. Also, the passed Senate bill does allow individual states to formulate their own public option provisions.

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