When the public option was taken out of the Senate version, he told reporters, "It will be revisited. ... I'm just saying, I believe it is so vital and so important that it is going to be revisited. Believe me."
And, in an interview on The Ed Show, when asked about a public option through reconciliation, he said, "You're talking to a guy who's for a single-payer system. I'm for a public option; always have been." His only objection was that he didn't want to risk the bill by adding it if there weren't the votes.
"You know, to Adam Green and others like that, God bless you," he added. "I appreciate what you're doing. You're on the right course in terms of pushing for the public option."
When I found him in DC and asked him if he would support it if it didn't jeopardize the bill, he said "Of course. I'm for single-payer. If it doesn't jeopardize the bill."
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