Kay Hagan: Don't judge me yet

Sen. Kay Hagan this morning told critics to "stay tuned" to the health care debate in Washington.

Hagan, a Democrat, talked to reporters after a visit to Charlotte's Shelter Health Services, a free clinic that provides medical services to residents of an adjacent shelter for homless women and children. Some in her own party have criticized her for appearing to take a so-called "public option" in health care reform off the table, the Charlotte Observer's Jim Morrill reports.

Many, including Democratic leaders such as Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, have put forward what's known as a "public option" provider, a federally run insurer. Hagan told the Greensboro News & Record this week that a federally run insurance program could cause companies to drop their private insurance plans and destabilize the insurance market.

"We haven’t taken a 'public option' off the table," she told reporters today. She said it depends on what that means. A member of a key Senate health committee, she said she’s working with colleagues to find a way to expand coverage, ensure quality of care and be fiscally accountable.

Critics, she said, "need to stay tuned." "People are so centered on the word 'public'," she said. "And it really depends on what’s (involved) in that."

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I judged her yesterday, slightly after noon EDT.

....is the 'n-word' of the Reagan-and-after era. Hagan knows what dog-whistles her state can hear.

Public transportation. They ride it -- can't have it.
Public education. They use it -- they screw it up -- must replace it.
Public works. All the work will be done by them, after the affirmative-action and prevailing-wage and must-be-union laws.
Public defenders' office. Keeps them out of prison, on technicalities, mostly.

And so forth.

Public television is the only 'public' I can think of that's poison because of (liberal) white people.

We will see if Dems will sell us down the river to the special interests or will put the public interest first. Count me a 'cynic.'

a federally run insurance program could cause companies to drop their private insurance plans and destabilize the insurance market. That's going to happen anyways because of the rising costs. She doesn't want to be blamed for it!

and destabilize the insurance market."

And this is a BAD thing?

would be gone.

contributions to our congresscritters.

for her campaign. She had better support a public option.