September 08 ,2009

With speculation rife that President Obama may either junk the public option as an alternative to private health care insurance, or, perhaps more likely, opt for  a"trigger" mechanism, one might ask why how health care reform got watered down.

Let us count the ways:

 1)
Billy Tauzin

1) The Blue Dogs. The Republican campaign against health care reform, specifically the public option, has so terrified centrist Democrats that, as the Washington Monthly reports, even those who had once been committed to supporting the public option, such as Democratic Representative Mike Ross, of Arkansas,

1) Montana Senator Max Baucus