House Progressive Caucus co-chair Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., said it will be a “grave error” for Congress to draft a health care reform bill that does not include a government run health insurance option and she believes there are enough liberal lawmakers to block its passage.
Woolsey said she is setting up a meeting with President Barack Obama, who this week signaled that he would not insist that a public option be a component of the health care reform bill that is to be the crowning achievement of his first term in office.
A public option, Woolsey told the Examiner, “isn’t just what I want, it is what the American people want and not including the public option will be a grave error because that is the only way will achieve real health care reform.”
“The president must support,” a strong public option, Woolsey said, “and he must tell the Senate to get its act together.”
