The people advising Obama are lowering expectations on the Public Option....

They start a rumor campaign of "No Public Option" and then surprise everyone with a phony "Public Option" that the media will triumph as a bold political move.

Now if you want to educate yourself as to what a "Real" public option is, I've been posting this link:

Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold

The people who brought us the “public option” began their campaign promising one thing but now promote something entirely different. To make matters worse, they have not told the public they have backpedalled. The campaign for the “public option” resembles the classic bait-and-switch scam: tell your customers you’ve got one thing for sale when in fact you’re selling something very different.

When the “public option” campaign began, its leaders promoted a huge “Medicare-like” program that would enroll about 130 million people. Such a program would dwarf even Medicare, which, with its 45 million enrollees, is the nation’s largest health insurer, public or private. But today “public option” advocates sing the praises of tiny “public options” contained in congressional legislation sponsored by leading Democrats that bear no resemblance to the original model.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the “public options” described in the Democrats’ legislation might enroll 10 million people and will have virtually no effect on health care costs, which means the “public options” cannot, by themselves, have any effect on the number of uninsured. But the leaders of the “public option” movement haven’t told the public they have abandoned their original vision. It’s high time they did.

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Hacker’s papers laid out these five criteria that he and the Lewin Group said were critical to the success of the “public option”:

• The PO had to be pre-populated with tens of millions of people, that is, it had to begin like Medicare did representing a large pool of people the day it commenced operations (Hacker proposed shifting all or most uninsured people as well as Medicaid and SCHIP enrollees into his public program);
• Subsidies to individuals to buy insurance would be substantial, and only PO enrollees could get subsidies (people who chose to buy insurance from insurance companies could not get subsidies);
• The PO and its subsidies had to be available to all nonelderly Americans (not just the uninsured and employees of small employers);
• The PO had to be given authority to use Medicare’s provider reimbursement rates; and
• The insurance industry had to be required to offer the same minimum level of benefits the PO had to offer.

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http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%E2%80%9Cpublic-option%E2%80%9D-was-sold

are going to do the GOP's dirty work for them. Gutting
Medicare so badly that when the GOP come back and they
will come back--it will be easy for them to end it.

Has anyone else noted. Not one Democrat has come forward
to explain exactly how you take 500,000,000 dollars out
Medicare without cutting services.

It is beginning to appear, Health Care is not even a concern
of Democrats. Since the Elites do not want to pay taxes
to help those less fortunate and GOP has no use for Medicare
the Democrats are permitting themselves to be used. They
think the public will accept the ending of Social Programs
from Democrats.

Health Care has never been discussed except in the Campaign.
Immediately they went to Insurance Reform. Using the Option
as a means of holding on Liberals, now do away with anything
they can that keeps it a Government Program. Privatized
Medicare was the aim all along.

FDR is rolling over in his grave. Where have all the real
Democrats gone???