Three Senators to Watch in the Health-Care Debate

Published On: October 27th, 2009

Health Reform Here’s the basic idea Harry Reid backed yesterday: Create a new, government-backed health insurance plan that would be offered to people who can’t get affordable health insurance through work, and allow individual states to decide whether to offer the plan.

Liberal Dems are likely to vote for the plan. Olympia Snowe, the one Republican who voted for the Senate Finance health-care bill, has said she doesn’t like it. Reid needs all of the Senate Democrats, and the two independents, to defeat a Republican filibuster. So the key votes are the moderate Dems.

Three key votes cited by a few reports out of Washington: Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, all from states John McCain won in the 2008 presidential battle.

Nelson said a few days ago he supported a federally backed insurance plan that allowed states to opt in, but was cool to the opt-out idea backed by Reid.

Landrieu said in a statement yesterday that she’s “very skeptical” of a public option, but said she looks forward to “reviewing the specific language of the merged bill and receiving detailed information from the Congressional Budget Office about the legislation’s cost to American taxpayers.”

Lincoln said yesterday that she’s waiting to see more details on the bill before she takes a position.

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Three Senators to Watch in the Health-Care Debate

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TimCaine : RT @auntmaryg: @TimCaine and @GovManchn, you have done what Stupek and Blanche Lincoln did by going against the Pres. I hope you meet the same fate #DINOs

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dRiggs1961 : RT @auntmaryg: @TimCaine and @GovManchn, you have done what Stupek and Blanche Lincoln did by going against the Pres. I hope you meet the same fate #DINOs

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BionicBlonde : RT @auntmaryg: @TimCaine and @GovManchn, you have done what Stupek and Blanche Lincoln did by going against the Pres. I hope you meet the same fate #DINOs

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auntmaryg : @TimCaine and @GovManchn, you have done what Stupek and Blanche Lincoln did by going against the Pres. I hope you meet the same fate #DINOs

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Mty917 : Romney lies again, remember Blanche Lincoln? She lost by 21%, Santorum lost by 17.4% @joenbc wouldn't point that out.

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RussOnPolitics : Donald Trump is wrong, actually. Blanche Lincoln suffered worst defeat of any sitting U.S. Senate in history. More than 20 points in 2010.

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NateBell4AR : RT @TolbertReport: Arkansas factoid for the day - only recent incumbant Senator to lose re-election bigger than Santorum (-18%) loss - Blanche Lincoln (-21%)

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