A total of three different public options have been offered as amendments to Baucus’ bill. The three public options run the gamut from the robust to the weak. The best and most robust public option is the one submitted by Senator Rockefeller. It resembles the robust public option originally proposed in the House. It would [...]

Senator Baucus finally released his long awaited health care reform bill with zero bipartisan support. I’ve been looking through the bill and discovered something very interesting. Baucus has purposely written his bill to make sure adding a robust public option would not dramatically reduce the CBO score of his legislation (it would still save average [...]