After Senate Democrats reached a tentative agreement earlier this week to drop the public option from the Health Care Bill (see my Tuesday post), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said today that she would be willing to support a bill without the public option as long as that's what the consensus was. After the House passed its version of the Health Care Bill last month (that includes the public option), the bill has stalled in the Senate, where it's unlikely to get enough votes to pass if the public option is included. This is a result of the opposition of Republicans and moderate Democrats, who fear a government take-over of the health care system. Pelosi said that at the moment, the Senate and House bills are 75 percent compatible. Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/10/health.care/index.html. This development doesn't surprise me, as American politics is set up so that moderation reigns supreme. Whenever the two parties disagree on something, they are forced to move to the middle if anything is to get passed, which is exactly what the Democrats and Republicans are doing now. Hooray for compromise!
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