It may actually be coming together. Opposition arguments on health care reform have played themselves out, polls show public support for reform including the public option, and new voices and energy are being added to the push for reform. When Organizing for America (born of the Obama campaign) sought $300,000 in online contributions to air ads featuring doctors and health care professionals supporting reform, they received $600,000, which suggests that the grass roots is back in the game.
Things seem to be coming together in Congress, however slowly. Support for a bill with the public option seems solid in the House, and Senate leadership is predicting a public option in its version, which Majority Leader Reid seems to want to create from the existing bills reported out of the Health and (soon) the Finance committees.
Salon has a good summary of recent developments. Mcjoan at Kos declares the public option battle won, and looks forward to the main event.
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