{"id":550,"date":"2009-09-14T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2009-09-14T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:35:59","slug":"snowe-and-collins-oppose-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/550\/snowe-and-collins-oppose-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowe and Collins Oppose Public Option"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Olympia Snowe, one of three Republicans who have been negotiating with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus on a health care reform compromise, is urging\u00a0the President\u00a0to take the public health insurance option “off the table.”\u00a0 On CBS’s Face the Nation <\/em>yesterday, Snowe said\u00a0Obama “should take it off the table.”<\/p>\n

In addition, Senator Susan Collins\u00a0is out there claiming that she wouldn’t even support a “trigger” for the “public option,” an idea floated by Democrats last week.\u00a0 Collins correctly argues<\/a>, “The problem with the trigger is it just delays the public option.”<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats have been courting both Senators in an effort to pass a bipartisan bill –\u00a0something that will be next to impossible without\u00a0Snowe and Collin’s\u00a0support.\u00a0 Without any Republican support, Democrats may have to resort to the nuclear option of the health care debate, which is to use budget reconciliation rules, if they\u00a0insist on a public option as part\u00a0of a final package.\u00a0 \u00a0Budget reconciliation would only require 51 votes for passage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following the taxpayer uproar, including the protests<\/a> over the weekend, they may want to think twice about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Olympia Snowe, one of three Republicans who have been negotiating with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus on a health care reform compromise, is urging\u00a0the President\u00a0to take the public health insurance option “off the table.”\u00a0 On CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, Snowe said\u00a0Obama “should take it off the table.” In addition, Senator Susan Collins\u00a0is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}