Snowe Comments on Majority Leader’s Decision to Include Public Option in Health Care Reform Bill
October 26, 2009
U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement today in response to Majority Leader Reid’s decision to include a public option, with a state opt-out provision, in the health care reform bill:
“I am deeply disappointed with the Majority Leader’s decision to include a public option as the focus of the legislation. I still believe that a fallback, safety net plan, to be triggered and available immediately in states where insurance companies fail to offer plans that meet the standards of affordability, could have been the road toward achieving a broader bipartisan consensus in the Senate.”
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