Reply #31: I think it needs to be no bill at all.

[eomer]

Because I'm strongly opposed to a mandate without a public option. But without a mandate it is impossible to eliminate the pre-existing condition exclusion. It is a domino effect so that once you knock the public option out then you've got to take the mandate out and once the mandate is out then you've got to put the pre-existing condition exclusion back and then we're left we something that is not worth doing.