The moment we've been waiting for is here:
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will announce his support for establishing a government-run health-insurance program that would allow individual states to opt out of the plan, a Democratic aide said today.
Reid’s move gives new momentum to the so-called public option as Congress considers the biggest changes to the U.S. medical-care system since it created Medicare, the health program for the elderly, in 1965.
Snowe is out. So, to pass this bill, each and every Senate Democrat will have to vote for cloture.
Every. Last. One.
Fasten your seatbelts. The initial health care reform skirmishes are over. The Battle Royale has begun.