Details of Schumer's Push for Public Option
-- Says he'll offer an amendment to the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill that will include a public option.
-- Calls his plan a "level playing field option" because it would be required to follow the same rules as private insurance plans.
-- "Any plan absolutely must be available to all Americans from the first day in order to successfully keep private insurers honest. So far, the co-op proposal and the trigger option don't meet those criteria, but the level playing field option does."
