Notably, it includes a public option and adds the unrelated “Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act”...

Then from the Budget Committee to the Rules Committee:

The Rules Committee will most likely make in order a subtitle amendment containing new legislative text that has yet to be released by the Democrats, which will contain the Obama proposal for reconciling the Senate and House bills, drop the public option, keep the student loan reform bill, and may have some new stuff we haven’t yet seen (we’ll keep you posted).

Wait, what?

"A public health insurance option, a national exchange and an earlier implementation date"? No.

But in an indication of how complicated and arcane the Congressional process can be — even for veteran journalists — reporters quickly retracted their stories.

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