Support for the Public Option Keeps Getting Stronger (295 hits)
It is not surprising that public and Congressional support for the public option, always strong, has surged again, just as the insurance industry has ham-handedly tried to manipulate key decision-makers in the Senate. In the crucial weeks to come, advocates of the public option will be arguing that the principle of majority-rule democracy should be allowed to work. And the insurance and drug industries (and Republicans) will be basing their strategy for stopping the public plan on an undemocratic procedure called the filibuster...
