Nevada's program would be especially fair, efficient and adequate

Now that the Congressional Budget Office has completed this week's take-home math assignment, it looks like the Max Baucus Insurance Industry Coddling Act of 2009 could actually get out of the Senate Finance Committee before Obama's second term. Maybe.

The prospect of some tangible movement in turn has prompted countless wildly divergent speculative scenarios about what the Democrats (and, ugh, Lieberman) might do when they finally get a chance to get up on their hind legs and hold forth on the Senate floor. At least one report even went so far as suggest that not all Democratic senators who matter are conservative.

And of particular local interest, perhaps, is a notion whereby instead of a robust, truly competitive national public option, the health care bill would provide for the establishment of state-based public option plans.

What could go wrong with that?

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The group still has not announced a final deal, but this type of cost analysis is sure to move the debate forward.

[Lisa]

I hope this bill does some good.