Health Care Reform Durbin Statement on the Public Option by Gary Kopycinski on October 27, 2009 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Health Care Reform: Governor Newsom Announces Affordable CalRx® Insulin, $11 a Pen, Will Soon Be Available for Purchase October 19, 2025 How the Government Shutdown Is Hitting the Health Care System – and What the Battle Over ACA Subsidies Means October 4, 2025 Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress. November 23, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2009. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin today made the following statement regarding the news that the Senate health care bill will include a public option: