Obamacare: Public Option is Dead Without Budget Reconciliation Gambit?

It appears so as moderate GOP Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins say no to Obama’s public option.

More proof that the “public option” is all but dead comes from the two senators Democrats hoped might side with them in supporting the measure in a health care reform bill.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) said President Obama “should take it off the table” since it would “give real momentum to building consensus,” reports The Hill.

Meanwhile, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said she would not even support a “trigger” option in any legislation, meaning a provision to delay a public option and allow health insurance companies to lower costs on their own, according to the Washington Post.

Said Collins: “The problem with the trigger is it just delays the public option.”

Flap breathes a little easier but the pressure should continue to mount by the LEFT to RAM the public option through the U.S. Senate.

So, it ain’t over until it is over.