Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) recently “voiced support for Democratic-backed health care legislation that includes a community health initiative, a government-backed insurance option for people who can’t or don’t want to purchase private insurance,” the Raleigh News & Observer reports.
But she also “expressed a willingness to compromise, underscoring why she has been the target of a major lobbying campaign by health-care partisans.”
Asked whether she thought such a public option was necessary for health care overhaul, Hagan said she wants more details on the potential cost of such an option.
Hagan said she was open to an alternative being pushed by some Democratic Senate moderates to allow states to set up health care co-ops patterned after electric co-ops.
(h/t – Talking Points Memo)
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