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Isaac Fitzgerald

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Reversal: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pushes for a public option, but one that comes with an escape hatch.

Leadership, progressives, and advocacy groups get behind the opt-out plan after Reid backs it.

Senator Olympia Snowe, the only Republican to support Democrats’ health care reform efforts, is “deeply disappointed” in the inclusion of a public option.

Insurance lobby says public option is a ‘roadblock to reform.’

“The 36 House Republicans Who Receive Medicare But Oppose The Public Option”


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Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

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