Gibbs insists Obama not backing off public option

Source: Associated Press

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists the Obama administration has not shifted its goals on health care reform or distanced itself from a government-run public insurance option.

He said in a meeting with reporters Tuesday morning that news stories suggesting that the administration was ready to abandon the public option as it battles to push health care reform through were overblown. The rash of reports began after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) appeared to signal the president was open to health care cooperatives as an alternative.

Gibbs said there was no intention to indicate a change in policy. He said, "If it was a signal, it was a dog whistle we started blowing weeks ago."

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see who wins.

See post 7.

so he can appear to be for or against something but later claim he was against or for it all along when the results are final.

It's tough staying in front of a stampeding herd and acting like a leader when the herd keeps changing directions.

I'm an Atheist so I have no god to plead with!!

'The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it...is not the entirety of health care reform' is what started the issue, so to blame Sebelius for echoing the President is probably unfair.

Some Democrats have abandoned it, and the Repugs know it's a soft spot in the program. It's likely to be a "compromise" in the bill.

I think we'll never see it in the bill that comes to the president's desk.

condition.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/white_house_reveals_obama_is?utm_source=a-section

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