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Last night Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that a version of the ‘public option’ will wind up in the Senate version of health care reform. We also talk with a listener who called us with her story of going bankrupt from credit card debt.
Washington Takeout: Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich joins us with last night’s startling announcement from Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that a version of the “public option,” considered nearly dead for several weeks, will wind up in the Senate version of health care reform.
Listener Takeout: We talk to listener Kelly, from Charlotte, N.C., who called us with her story of going bankrupt from credit card debt.