WASHINGTON (CNN) - After announcing his intention to move forward with a health care reform bill in the Senate that includes a version of the public health insurance option that would allow states to opt out, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told CNN that he has not ruled out using a budgetary procedure called reconciliation which would allow Democrats to pass the bill with a simple majority.Related Posts:Politico — 30 Senate Dems urge leadership to include public optionSnowe to Reid: ‘What’s t

Earlier this month, when blogger-activist Mike Stark asked Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) if his opposition to the public option meant that he would filibuster a health care reform bill that included one, Lieberman was non-committal , saying “we’ll see” while also warning that there’s a “danger in doing too much.” In remarks to reporters today, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) moved closer to siding with Republicans and actively blocking reform. Lieberman gave a wishy-washy response, stating that while

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announces that the public option is now in the Senate version of the health care reform bill. With one caveat that it will include an opt-out option for states . So Democrats now believe in a form of federalism? Hmmmmm… It would seem that the only way Senator Reid feels he can keep liberal members of his caucus on board is if he keeps the public option. The moderates would only vote for it I suppose is if it includes an opt-out. So he thinks

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Funding for the Senate's health care reform bill includes a proposed $4 billion tax on med-tech companies that has gathered a bipartisan contingent of opponents, many from Minnesota, the Star Tribune said.Local med-tech company executives and prosthetic limb recipients such as Aaron Holm, 43, of Shakopee, Minn., spoke out against the tax at a hearing organized by Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., the Star Tribune said.This industry is an American success story. I want to make sure it stays that way,