Health-care markup is just beginning - Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com

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For all the posturing and hype surrounding the Finance Committee health care reform bill, there was little real suspense inside Hart 216 on Tuesday.

Democrats criticized the absence of a public insurance option. Republicans described the legislation as a “stunning assault on liberty” and signaled that all of them — except maybe Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe — are probably voting no.

But it was clear from the start that the markup of Chairman Max Baucus’s bill wasn’t going to be the final word on anything in the health reform debate — as there were few hints that a bloc of about five liberal senators on the committee planned to make the Finance Committee their last stand.

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