It wasn’t but a few weeks ago that folks from the progressive community and people like Max Baucus were all deeply skeptical of an opt-out public option. It’s a sign of, among other things, how quickly support coalesced around this compromise that almost all of those original naysayers have now come out in support of Harry Reid’s proposed bill.
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