Rep. Engel (D-NY)

A number of TPM Readers wrote in over recent days telling us they’d called Rep. Eliot Engel’s (D-NY) office and been told, to their surprise, that he was leaning against voting for the Health Care Reform bill. The issue was over Medicaid reimbursement rates and regulations and his concern the bill disadvantaged New York for its particularly generous policies. But that’s now been changed in the current reconciliation bill. And Engel just told our Brian Beutler that while he won’t commit to anything without seeing the exact language, if the changes are as they’ve been described to him, that he’s now on board.