This morning, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) arrived at Seattle’s Country Doctor clinic on Capitol Hill to announce that she’d arm-twisted the Obama administration into launching the Federal Basic Health Plan Option (FBHPO) in 2015. In 1987, the late Governor Booth Gardner signed Washington State’s Basic Health Plan into law at the same Country Doctor clinic. Continue reading Sen. Cantwell: Washington State is Model for Federal Basic Health Plan