Those two little words keep popping up amid all the chatter about health care reform, and here they are again, thanks to Sen. Tom Harkin, chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee: “public option.” According to Harkin, the final draft of the health care legislation being drawn up and squabbled about now will hit President Barack Obama’s desk, complete with a public option component, before Christmas. –KA

CNNPolitics.com:

“I believe we are in an irrevocable position,” Harkin said on a conference call organized by the health care reform group Families USA. “The momentum is there. We will not get stopped by the obstructionists. We will have the votes.”

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