Health Care Reform: Undoing Obama's Health Law Could Have Messy Ripple Effects

The secret "quid pro quo" deals Obama negotiated were based on the premise that there'd be no public option in the final bill ("Obama Made Deal To Kill Public Option").

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate (without a public option) was when an opportunity presented itself to include a public option.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly­) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the dead of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  
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