Because Harry Reid did not get an enthusiastic support from the white house for the Opt-out , i sense that there may be a final compromise to get the 60 vote needed to get the 60 votes.
I also believe the Opt-out was presented as a compromise way too early.
Reid should had gone will a full blown public option with no opt-out clause...then have the opt-out be the final compromise.
Now , i think the opt-in will be the final compromise to get the remaining 2 votes.
From what I've heard , the white house wanted to keep Snowe support , thus secretly supporting the trigger and gambling the left would be easier to falter and support the more right-leaning legislature instead of the moderate democrats faltering to a more liberal health-care with a public option.
Obviously , the left has been forceful enough to get Harry to put the public option in there or risk angering them.
The White house is now publicly supporting Harry Reid only because it doesn't want to anger the left.
There's only 2 hold out to pass the public option....Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh....I sense Landrui will eventually vote against the bill , but wont filibuster...Instead , she will try to amend the public option out of the final bill to save face and tell her LA voters that she indeed tried to get the public option out and hope that they wont recognize her refusal to really kill health care by joining the GOP to filibuster.
Bayh refusal to support public option is because his wife works for one of those insurance company and i'm sure they are pressuring her to get her husband to save their massive profits.
But i'm sure Bayh will not want to be the lone guy standing in the way of major victory for the democratic party , thus , if he knows he's alone , he will falter.
That leaves us to Nelson who happens to be the number one obstacle.
This is why i believe a final compromise will be made..
Nelson is from a dead-red conservative states and he will demand major cover for him..
He's rumored to prefer to "Opt-In" instead of the opt-out...That is of course if it's between the 2 options.
He wants to make it easier for state to nothave a public option and believe the opt-out put the burden on the states since they will have to make the case to opt out while the Opt-in does the opposite...The public option supporters would have to lobby to get state to opt in.
At the end of the day , i can deal with an opt-in if it's between that or Nelson joining the GOP filibuster.