SocraticGadfly: SEIU union chief warns of GOP resurgence

August 20, 2009

SEIU union chief warns of GOP resurgence

Andy Stern claims that failure to have a public option in the national healthcare reform legislation will result in a GOP Congressional takeover in 2010.

He may be hyperventilating a little, but not necessarily a lot.

Whether it really does matter that much, without other price controls, a public option is a shibboleth and sine qua non for many liberal activists – who could stay home in swing districts.

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