Pelosi: House Dems can support Obama healthcare proposal

By GottaLaff

Medicare extension. Medicare extension. Medicare extension. Listen to Howard Dean...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Democrats can support the major parts of the healthcare proposal released by the White House. [...]

Pelosi also didn’t object to the lack of a public insurance plan in Obama’s bill. Liberals in the House have pled for Obama to support the public option, and had included it in their bill as a way to ensure competition with private insurance and to drive down healthcare costs.

“There are other ways to do that,” Pelosi said. “We intend to do that in the bill. [The public option] seems to me the best way to us, but that will depend on what the Senate can pass on the Senate side.”

Just. Do. Something.