Okay, I checked the wire at 6 p.m. and still no Maria.
But the P-I posted this about an hour later:
With local liberals making rumbles, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Tuesday that a "public option" should be part of a package to reform the nation's health care system, but was vague about what form it should take.
Cantwell, who sits on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said that Congress needs to develop a new system of health delivery to replace a status quo that "rewards inefficiency" and "rewards volume" in the form of unnecessary tests.
Cantwell and Gov. Chris Gregoire were headliners at a forum sponsored by the University of Washington Medical School.
The forum took place on a day of events underscoring the urgency of reform, the political pressure on lawmakers, and the political calculations of getting reform through the U.S. Senate.
Victims of state budget cuts, several centers providing nursing, health and rehabilitative care to senior citizens and the disabled closed their doors in Seattle and several other cities.
Seattle-area Democratic organizations, longtime champions of a Canadian-style single payer government health plan, convened in Renton to plot ways to put pressure on Cantwell.
But she's still flirting with that co-op idea.
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