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Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M., has signed on to a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to include a public health insurance option into any health care reform legislation, according to our sister site the Washington Independent. Udall joined 28 other Senate Democrats and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, in signing on.
The letter reads, in part:
We have spent the better part of this year fighting for health reform that would provide insurance access and continuity to every American in a fiscally responsible manner. We are concerned that – absent a competitive and continuous public insurance option – health reform legislation will not produce nationwide access and ongoing cost containment. For that reason, we are asking for your leadership on ensuring that the merged health reform bill contains a public insurance option.
The Washington Independent says the letter is “deceptively thin,” as some staunch advocates of the public option, the example they use is Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., did not sign the letter.
Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has not signed on to the letter. On his Web site, Bingaman says, “I strongly support a public option.” Bingaman voted for a bill in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee which included a public option.
However, Bingaman has been open to other health care reform ideas that don’t include the public option including the bill written by Senator Max Baucus, D-Mont., for the Senate Finance Committee.
