The public option isn’t dead.

There are other bills going through other committees.

Then, when both the Senate and House have voted, the two bills will go to a conference committee. That is where the “public option” will live or die. you might be shocked to find that a public option is absent from both the house and senate bills yet is part of the bill coming out of the conference committee. That is where the deals will be done behind closed doors so that no one owns what the president wants.