How health care’s public option might pass
n the Senate Finance Committee today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) are introducing an amendment to add the hotly-contested public option to the Finance Committee’s health care bill. We talk with Douglas Schoen, Democratic pollster and former Clinton consultant and Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich explains the ramifications of the amendment.
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