The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America are running a new television commercial in Maine and Washington, DC, urging Senator Olympia Snowe to support a public health insurance option. The ad features a woman who thought her family had good health insurance until her husband got cancer, and medical bills not covered by the insurance company forced them into bankruptcy. Watch it:

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I don't put high odds on Snowe changing her position; she is said to be under tremendous pressure from Senate Republican leaders, and she likes the public option-free Baucus health care bill. But that bill might not make it out of the Senate Finance Committee without big changes. Meanwhile, Snowe represents a blue state where the majority of voters support a public health insurance option.