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Roundup: The Obama Administration: For the Public Option Before They Were Against It... Sort Of?

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

October 19, 2009 - 11:00am (Print)

While the public wants a public option, and while the President-as-candidate campaigned on the promise of at least something akin to a public option, the Administration has, from day one of the health care reform process, done just about everything it could to say they are "for" a public option "kinda sorta" but "it's not the defining piece" of health reform. Huh?

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