Obama Expresses Skepticism to Senators on Public Option

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 23, 2009, 10:54 a.m.

President Barack Obama in a meeting with Senate leaders Thursday night was cool to the idea of creating a national public insurance option that states could opt out of, but Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has not yet given up on the possibility of including it in his chamber’s health care reform bill.



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