Kucinich Hits Back At Gibbs: You've Read Liberals Wrong

Senate Democrats have been worried that Republicans would offer a public option amendment, and that some of them might even vote in favor of it, in order to force Democrats into a choice of approving the public plan and dragging out the legislative process or voting against the public plan and potentially angering the Democratic party’s liberal base.



On the other hand, Senate Republicans believe that the public plan is a big step toward a total government takeover of the health care system. And they are worried that Democrats, having already won enactment of the bulk of the health care legislation, might actually muster the votes to approve the public option.



Some liberal groups are circulating petitions and pressuring Democratic lawmakers to give the public option one last chance. Now that the health care bill is law, they say, why not take the final stop and create a public plan to compete with private insurers?



“Congress passed its health insurance reform bill last night. It’s an admirable first step, but the task of providing affordable health care to every American is still before us,” wrote the liberal blogger Jan Hamsher of Firedoglake.com in a message to public option supporters. “This week, the Senate will pass a series of fixes to the bill. This is the moment for a leader in the Senate to make the first step towards actual health care reform: putting the public option up for a vote.”



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