Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is not ready to accept a trigger option in place of a public option, she said today at a press conference.
“And the evidence seems to point, at this caucus that I just went to, that a trigger is an excuse for not doing anything,” she said, reports Greg Sargent. “But everybody is open to listening to what people have to say. The point was made over and over again that for one reason or another the trigger was not effective in the Medicare Part D bill.”
But, reports The Hill, she said, “I don’t even want to talk about a trigger.”
Pelosi has said a bill without a public option will not pass the House. Today’s comments seem to show that the trigger would not be an acceptable substituted.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) backs the trigger option, and the White House has reportedly been trying to convince progressive groups to do the same.
