In the event that it passes the Senate, what will happen to the health insurance reform bill when it returns to the House? Must it include the government-run “public option” to pass? Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D, Calif., has a different answer depending on when you ask her.
September: “I believe that a public option will be essential to our passing a bill in the House of Representatives.”
This week: “It depends on what else is in the bill.”