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Yesterday, both Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) offered amendments that would have reintroduced a government-run insurance option to the health care reform bill under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee. Both amendments were rejected by the committee. The Takeaway's Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, was there for the vote and he joins us to talk about yesterday's rejection by the Senate Finance Committee, the assertion by Sen. Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) that he can count to 60, and whether the public option has any future.
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The public option could be a Trojan horse that will bring health care under the control of the government.
Max Baucus can count but it's not the votes in the senate he's counting. It's the number of medical industrial complex dollars pouring in from the sick care industry lobbyists to protect their growing shares of the 17% of GDP.
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