Apparently the reconciliation bill was just released... here it is: PDF - and the public option is in it. (retracted - see below...)
What am I missing here?
Sorry for the world's shortest diary, but I thought this was completely ruled out. If they're truly including the public option in the reconciliation bill, this is huge.
Updates:
- Here is
the article at The Hill announcing the release of the bill.
- Jeffrey Young (health care wonky guy)
tweets it...
- Ah, I see - the first couple divisions might be reprinting or summarizing the earlier House versions of the bill that came out of various committees. So it might be that the public option isn't actually in the reconciliation bill.
- Apparently, word is this bill is released entirely for "procedural purposes", and is really just the senate HCR bill packaged for the house. No drama here.
- Nico Pitney
tweets: 'This is not what you're looking for'. No changes to Senate Bill.
Last Update:
Basically, this is a shell bill - gets sent to the budget committee, who will rubber stamp it, and then it goes to the rules committee, who will strip it out and replace it with the actual reconciliation language. So, something got released here, but you can ignore a lot of the content. The newsworthy part is that it looks like the reconciliation bill will include student loan reforms.