Blanche Lincoln Mum On Opt-Out Public Option…For Now

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
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Only three Democrats voted against both “robust” and modest public option amendments to the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill: Kent Conrad (D-ND), Max Baucus (D-MT), and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR).

We caught up with Conrad and Baucus yesterday–but what about Lincoln?

For now, Lincoln isn’t commenting on the plan–a common refrain on the Hill given the extremely fledgling nature of the proposal. We should know more next week, though. The Finance Committee will vote on its bill Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Majority Leader Harry Reid will kick off the process of merging the Finance and HELP Committee proposals. And the shape of the bill that reaches will have a tremendous bearing on the fate of this, or any number of other, potential changes to it.

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