Republican Olympia Snowe voted for reform in the Senate Finance Committee, thus constituting a bipartisan win (well, at least technically). So, are we all good here, people? Do we just wait out the merging of the Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) version of the health care bills and then declare a victory?
No, says Politico:
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson said [Olympia Snowe] wasn’t “forecasting what her future votes might be” when she cast the lone Republican vote for the Finance bill.
Likewise, Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, whose own stance on health care remains an open question, cautioned, “I think she’s been careful to say that she supports it coming out of committee, but no guarantees on final passage because it’s going to change quite a bit between now and then.”
Looks like the Centrists are going to play hard to get. Again.
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