Pelosi Reps the Public Option; Obama Admits He Abandoned It

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Source: AlterNet

Well, there’s good news out of the presidential health care summit today. Nancy Pelosi who has gone back and forth time and time again over the public health insurance option has really repped it today. Addressing the President, Pelosi said:

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Pelosi’s remarks were followed by what may be Obama’s first public admission of what many of us have been pointing out for some time now — that he abandoned the public option he campaigned on… and not for lack of votes as has been the official mantra, but because the GOP can’t swallow it, and he was striving for a bipartisan bill.

Read more: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/25/breaking-pelosi-reps-the-public-option-obama-admits-he-abandoned-it/