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Is Obama Dumping the Public Option?

Original article, by David Corn, via motherjones.com:

“It had better be wrong.”

That was the response of Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to Wednesday’s Politico story  that the Obama White House, as it retools its strategy for health care reform, has no intention of fighting for the inclusion of a public option that would offer government-run health insurance to companies and people who can’t obtain affordable coverage elsewhere. And Jacob Hacker, a health policy expert who can be called the godfather of the public option, says, “The White House…has to be told in no uncertain terms that dropping the public plan is stupid and premature.”