Gibbs insists Obama not backing off public option
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090818/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care_overhaul
WASHINGTON – 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."

Good to know. I hear he is open to other ideas if they meet the requirements for competition. We shall see I guess.

Of course he's not backing off the public option. Single payer is the end game. And he knows the way to get there is to establish this so-called public option.

The gov is supposed to break up monopolies, not establish and run them. And that's what this is going to be. Government operated monopoly.. with no other place to go, when all the private companies are run out of business by a government system that literally prints its own money rather than having to go onto the open market to raise capital, people needing healthcare coverage will be forced onto the government coverage rolls.

that's neither choice, nor competition.

Is it the flip-flop game or did I just think I read a couple days ago, they were giving that option up???