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Public Option Chaos: Dropped or Not?

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Major news source conflict on whether it’s out.

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Tuesday evening, The New York Times reported that Senate leaders had "reached a broad agreement" to drop a government-run insurance plan from the pending health-care reform legislation and that the Congressional Budget Office would score the impact that cutting the measure would have on the budget.

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