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September 4, 2009

House Progressives Demand Public Healthcare Option
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The co-chairs of the House Progressive Caucus have sent President Obama
a letter vowing to reject healthcare reform legislation that doesn’t
include a public option based on Medicare rates. In the letter,
Democratic Congress members Lynn Woolsey of California and Raul Grijalva
of Arizona write, “A health reform bill without a robust public option
will not achieve the health reform this country so desperately needs. We
cannot vote for anything less.” The letter follows reports the White
House has privately revived a plan that would “trigger” a public option
only if private insurers are deemed to have not provided suitable care
and market competition.



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