Changing tunes? Just a couple weeks ago, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) said health care reform legislation would not be viable in the House without a strong public option. Now he says it might squeeze by even if it guarantees no public option at all.
“I think anything like a trigger would be a retreat from the idea of getting cost savings in this bill. We might be able to pass it. It might be able to get through Congress. But it won’t accomplish what the President and the American people say they need, which is cost reductions, immediately.
At one point, over 60 House progressives said they’d balk at such an idea–enough to doom the overall bill. Is that number going down?
