[PJ-Comix]

Hmm... Olympia Snowe won't back the Baucus bill if it includes public option but if it doesn't include public option then Jay Rockefeller won't support it.

[EGPWS]

Sen. Jay Rockefeller blasted the draft bill produced by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus: “there is no way in its present form that I vote for it unless it changes in the amendment process by vast amounts.”

Disdain for this bill keeps moving left.

Eventually it will hit Snowe.

[JoeFromSidney]

Don't worry. "Yellow" Snowe will cave in. She'd rather have a bad bill than be accused of sabotaging health care.

[avital2]

by the way, where’s O’s bill? the one he waxed poetic about just last week.. just curious.

[BARLF]

The program, called Dirigo Health Agency, which includes DirigoChoice, was established in 2003, making Maine the first state this decade to implement a universal-coverage health care plan. Now both supporters and opponents of the plan say that national lessons can be learned from Maine.

The program passed on the promise that it would pay for itself in savings and cover the uninsured. However, it only insured about 36 percent of the previously uninsured, and 64 percent of those in the program left their private insurer for the public option, according to the 2008 annual report.

Meanwhile, the state’s taxpayers have spent $154.8 million to keep the program operating, premiums have increased, and the average subsidy cost is $300 per person per month

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=52037

Snow and Collins should know better than to vote for obama NHC.

[Brilliant]

[Right_in_Virginia]

Wow. I guess these folks haven’t heard that “the Won” said the time for debate is over ;-)