Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said today that liberal and moderate Senate Democrats have reached a "broad agreement" in terms of the health care bill's controversial public option. Sources say that the agreement contains proposals to replace the public option with a nonprofit "private option." Liberal Democrats such as Wisconsin's Russ Feingold dispute Reid's statement, and claim to be unwilling to compromise on the public option. But replacing the public option with a private option could potentially sway the votes of two Senators, Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who are against the public option but are willing to compromise. All this public vs. private option doesn't make sense to me, maybe because I don't know that much about insurance. But I have to doubt that the Senate has actually reached a consensus, seeing how most everything these days is gridlocked. Maybe Reid is just saying these things to boost the morale of the American people. Find more information at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/08/health.care/index.html.
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