This will come as a welcome moment of relief for House progressives and public option enthusiasts.
“I fully support the public option. The public option will be in the bill that passes the House,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters today.
Last week, Pelosi said “This is about a goal. It’s not about provisions. As long as our goal of affordability and accessibility and quality, meeting the four…goals that we have in the legislation, then we will go forward with that bill.”
But all along she’s been a strong proponent of the public option, and earlier in the process she insisted that a bill without a public option could not pass in the House.
