Donaldson looks at where we stasnd on healthcare reform

[0:00] ..." Despite two defeats of Senate Finance Committee backers of public option is part of healthier overall are not given up. Though the plan to about the government compete directly with insurance companies went nowhere in the finance committee's supporters hope to have better luck in the full senate. Inside on the effort as it stands with ABC news senior political"...

[0:24] ..." on the floor of the Senate because. There are seven maybe eight democratic senators who have expressed great reservation. To the point of saying note to the public option. -- The Senate will not there two"...

[0:00]" Despite two defeats of Senate Finance Committee backers of public option is part of healthier overall are not given up. Though the plan to about the government compete directly with insurance companies went nowhere in the finance committee's supporters hope to have better luck in the full senate. Inside on the effort as it stands with ABC news senior political correspondent Sam Donaldson."

[0:21]" I don't think people who went public option we'll have better luck on the floor of the Senate because. There are seven maybe eight democratic senators who have expressed great reservation. To the point of saying note to the public option. -- The Senate will not there two bills will go to the conference committee and -- hammered out. And I doubt very seriously at the conference committee again understanding the reality the pragmatic reality of no votes in the Senate for at. Will write a bill that contains it. If they -- ago. I think this that it would turn it down and then -- distribute out of the bill anyway so why then just for the sake of pleasing people on the left in a losing battle. They put again only to see it stripped out I think you'd be wasted time but then I'm not reading the Senate says -- enter an increased focus on the co -- provision correct I think it Kent Conrad's co -- Idea probably will emerge in the Senate bill. Whether it's days in the final again Libya question. Although it could probably gain enough votes in the Senate I say probably because three of four of those seven or eight Democrats who say they're against the public option would go they say for the co -- plan. Still you have to get the sixty to magic number and and you can't write a bill. That doesn't have sixty votes for the group Republicans almost to a person may be Olympia snow will be an exception are gonna say no. Public perception this goes to the floor of the Senate and it meets with -- feed it slows the wheels of the train. Well it's inconceivable to me that the Democrats will leave -- this year in May be a Christmas Eve. Without passing something that there. President their own party can call a victory because they -- 1994 when they didn't pass something. Then on health care reform and it was one of the factors that contributed to the massive takeover of congress by the Republicans in 1994. Along with -- ABC news senior political correspondent Sam Donaldson I'm Gregg Jensen WBZ Newsradio 1030."