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Public option push in Senate comes with escape hatch
New York Times, October 27, 2009
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, sided with his party's liberals and announced that he would include a government-run insurance plan in healthcare legislation that he plans to take to the Senate floor within a few weeks. Under the proposal, however, a state could refuse to participate in the public insurance plan by adopting a law to opt out.
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