In an interview recorded yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said “any public option is a good one” and contended that a public option is “what [House members] believe in.”
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked Pelosi if it was worth it to try to get a robust public option in the House, when the Senate version would likely be something weaker, like an opt-out or trigger option. It’s akin to making House members walk the political plank, Mitchell said.
“You don’t want members to take any unnecessary political risk,” Pelosi responded. “But this is what they believe in.”
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“Any option is a good one. So it’s not a question of one being superior to the other. It’s which one saves the most money, which one is the most fiscally sound, and which one will work best,” she continued.
Pelosi also said that although “public option” may not have been the best choice of words, she doesn’t think she’ll start calling it “Medicare for all.”
The interview was recorded just after Pelosi had lunch with President Obama in the White House.
