Sebelius now states Public Option Obama goal

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U.S. health secretary backs government-run insurance during OSU visit

BY JOE HALLETT
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

In a visit to the Ohio State University Medical Center today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reasserted the Obama Administration's strong support for government-run insurance as part of a new health-care system.
Although she did not rule out a compromise that excludes a public insurance option, Sebelius today avoided repeating her comment on CNN Sunday that a government-run alternative to private insurance is "not the essential element" of the administration's health reform effort.

Speaking to reporters after viewing examples of Ohio State's leadership in the use of electronic medical records, Sebelius said incorporating a public insurance option into health-care reform remains President Barack Obama's goal.

"There's no question the president believes and I believe that the best way to make sure that we have choices for consumers and cost competition for the private industry is with a public option and a new marketplace," Sebelius said. "He continues to say that, I'll continue to say that."

Let's go for Medicare for All - why stop at just pushing the President back to the shitty "Public Option"?

while moving the bill out of the Senate.

The next step in the plan to get America covered relies on this. The Public Option is safe, always has been.

Though the Senate was always where health reform was going to be the most difficult. It always comes back to the those few conservadems in the Senate and what to do about them.

"The Democratic wing of the Democratic Party"

:sarcasm: