Wednesday, October 28, 2009 This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” October 27, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.Now they’re promising an opt-out, as if there’s going to be voluntary or some flexibility when, if the facts are, you got to pay all the taxes even if you don’t participate, it’s just — it’s a joke.GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: It seems like a simple question, but apparently it isn’t. What is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’

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

From Fox News, October 27, 2009. “Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent from Connecticut, said Tuesday that he will not vote for a healthcare reform bill that includes a government-run insurance plan. This means that as things now stand, Democrats will not have enough votes to pass healthcare reform with a so-called public option unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) can pick up unexpected GOP votes. Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), the only Republican to vote for

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

This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that the merged Senate health bill would establish a national public option that allows states to opt out of the plan by 2014. Reid did not indicate that he had 60 votes in support of the opt-out, but said that he would not submit competing public option compromises to the Congressional Budget Office. The answer suggests that the Senate would not use the trigger or any other compromise as an alternative if the opt-out measure fai