Early Morning Swim

I wish I could be as confident.

Today on CBS’ Face the Nation, two senior Senators, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, on the  Senate Finance Committee offered widely different assessments on how the final health care reform package would look. Not surprising, the object of their discord was the public option in the US health care reform proposals now working their way through the Senate.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, was emphatic. "Make no mistake about it, the president is for this strongly. There will be a public option in the final bill." Naturally, Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley begged to differ. "The federal government is in the process of nationalizing banks, nationalizing General Motors. I’m going to make sure we don’t nationalize health insurance and [the] public option is the first step to doing that," countered Senator Grassley.

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