In an article by the New York daily news, they covered the topic of what has been decided concerning the health care reform. It states that Democratic leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were in an hour meeting with the President where they discussed the Health care reform. They claimed that they have the reform 90% completed, and the main discussion was of the public option. It states that the President believes that there needs to be a public option policy included in the reform. Although they state that they are 90% done and have everything for the most part worked out; the second half of the article talks about how they need the public option, unless anyone else has any other ideas. Reid then seems to ask the public, "So if somebody has a better idea than that, put it on the table". This seems to me that they may think they are 90% done, but the last 10% is a major deal that seems to have no real end in sight. This is only confirmed when the last sentence of the article states, that although Obama supports the public option, nothing has been done about it yet.
The picture above shows Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid
The full article can be read at the NY Daily website.
I went and read the article that you wrote about, and it was very well done. I do wonder though, do you think that public option is a good reform or do you feel it should be left out? With the 10% still so uncertain, will there ever actually be a confirmed health reform or will they always be trying to find something better. I think a health reform is imperative to help our failing economy. Have you found from outside research that there is an end in sight or does it all seem useless? I feel like this has been a topic of conversation for too long and someone has to take charge.
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