Quickie: Pelosi Comes Out Swinging For The Public Option

By GottaLaff

Today's Quickie: Keeping her spine intact:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made her most impassioned argument in weeks, today, for including a public option in comprehensive health care reform legislation, arguing against the idea, favored by some conservative Democrats, of mandating that people buy health insurance, and then throwing them into what she called the "lion's den" of the private insurance industry.

In so doing, Pelosi came closer than any member of the Democratic leadership has thusfar to suggesting that the individual mandate is conditional on the inclusion of a public option.

Much more here. I'm off to work, so this was a quickie.

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