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Sen. Carper’s interview with NBR focuses largely on his proposal for states to create their own Public Options until the reporter asks him about the plan to create a federal Public Option and let states opt out. He pretty quickly acknowledges that new suggestion and moves the conversation to a discussion of the CBO scoring. If you are looking at the video, this starts around minute 2:00.
One of our commenters here remarked that we’d have to watch Carper as he works to protect the interests of his insurance company funders and tries to water this down. I think that this interview is the “tell” that Carper may not be nearly as interested in the opt out initiative as in the states create their own plan.
Always worth watching — since you can usually win with a bet that Carper will vote with his funders than for his constituents.