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Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a bill Thursday that falls short of the liberal vision of a public option — and the liberals, so far and somewhat surprisingly, are going along with that.
After months of public hand-wringing and strident proclamations in support of the strongest possible government-run health coverage, liberal Democrats are bowing to the reality that party leaders don’t have the votes.
So Pelosi will unveil a bill that creates a public option but one that would allow doctors and hospitals to negotiate rates with the government. Liberals wanted a bill tethered to Medicare rates.
In the end, most liberal lawmakers were willing to stand down in this months-long fight because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced earlier this week that he would seek to include a public option in the Senate bill.
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