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In late 2009, in an event space beneath the US Capitol plaza, a small celebration centered on a big decision. The Majority Leader of the US Senate, Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, announced he would support the inclusion of a public option in the health-care bill that would soon be considered on the Senate floor. As one of the policy experts who had pushed for the public option, I was in the audience – gratified that Reid had decided to fight for the goal yet unsure of what would come next. Earlier in the year, the House had passed its own health legislation, which included a Medicare-like public option. But from the moment it had become a major element of Democratic campaign proposals during the 2008 presidential race, the public option had been controversial – viewed as a step too far not only by Republicans and the medical industry, but also by many middle-of-the-road Democrats. Now, in signaling he would back it, Reid was also suggesting he could convince skeptical Senate Democrats to go along.

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