Its a simple repeat of the fight of stimulus dollars earlier in the spring where if states wanted federal dollars for unemployment they had to expand/lengthen their rolls. The idea here is make a public option with states being able to vote in or out which is a sham as the public would demand to opt in in their respective states.
| Senate Democrats have begun discussions on a compromise approach to health care reform that would establish a robust, national public option for insurance coverage but give individual states the right to opt out of the program. The proposal is envisioned as a means of getting the necessary support from progressive members of the Democratic Caucus -- who have insisted that a government-run insurance option remain in the bill -- and conservative Democrats who are worried about what a public plan would mean for insurers in their states. ....Another Democrat working on reform legislation added, "If everyone gets a plan, and states have to affirmatively vote, preferably by referendum, to opt out. I really don't see a lot of states opting out, for one. And, for two, you get your national [public plan] available everywhere. If a few holes start appearing, it's not nearly as fatal as if you went with the Carper plan, which after a few years might mean 10 or 20 [state-based] public options. If you go the other way, you'll probably have like 47 states. It's a big difference." |
Slick move and with gutless opposition, it would be easy to fold states into a national plan.
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