Harry Reid took the public option nearly unchanged from the Senate HELP committee Bill and put it in the merged bill. It is called the “Community Health Insurance Option.” Besides the addition of a very bad, unlimited, pre-reform opt-out provision, Reid made almost no changes. The only changes besides the addition of the opt-out provision [...]

We now have the legislative language for the House’s less robust public option (PDF page 211), and it has been reported that Harry Reid plans to include the Senate HELP Committee’s public option–with some form of state opt-out procedure. (Whether legislative language for the public option in the merged Senate bill is exactly identical to the [...]