I believe Fiat wants money to kill the option.
"A trigger option is a way to kill the public option and these opt ins are not effective because it leaves it up to state legislatures to set it up..."...
At this point, however, they're trying to kill the public option in more subtle ways.
This is a trigger specifically, intentionally designed to kill the public option.
Nor do the figures include spending by groups like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has multiple issues pending before Congress but led the effort to kill the public option.
"You can't be half pregnant," says one Fiat director.But Fiat's true agenda may be to provoke GM into paying a chunk of money to kill the put option, and to agree a looser alliance.
If both showed up, someone from the Democratic caucus would have to break ranks to kill the public option.
But there is real danger in the Senate, where conservatives have stepped up efforts to kill the public option.
The insurance industry surely would mobilize politically to kill the public option again, but might be more amenable to expanding the public managed care pool to accommodate more customers.
In other words, we needed a way to kill off options so we could focus on moving forward.
