Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will go with the public option. . . with an opt-out. . . and co-ops. Read Reid’s statement.

The devil is in the details with the public option opt-out–and we still have very few details. There are many unanswered questions, and the answers will determine if the opt-out is a failure.

Obama has been pushing the trigger for months, and Occam’s razor dictates that Obama just did not really support a public option.

The trigger that Senator Snowe wanted would end wasting $100 billion for the sole purpose of giving health insurance companies another chance.

CBO says that repealing the insurance antitrust exemption would do very little.