Kucinich Hits Back At Gibbs: You've Read Liberals Wrong

And then on 2/23/10 - 'The President's Plan': No Public Option



==For more than a year, President Obama remained on the sidelines of the health care debate -- chiming in now and again with sometimes-inspired, sometimes-disappointing rhetoric about broad values while members of Congress did the heavy lifting.



Now, the president has finally weighed it with "a plan."



But it is not enough.



The White House is making a big deal about what's being labeled "The President's Proposal," which the administration announced with much fanfare Monday.



According to the White House, the Obama plan does a lot:



[...]



But the real news is what it does not do.



Despite urging from House leaders and a growing number of senators, "The President's Plan" does not include a public option.



Nor does it bow in any meaningful way to progressive proposals to expand access to Medicare and Medicaid.



In other words, the president has opted for the Senate's exceptionally compromised approach, rather than the bolder bill produced by the House. This is not exactly shocking. The president abandoned serious discussion of the public option several months ago. But the failure to even reference moves to develop a federally-funded alternative to private insurance represents a clear embrace of the Senate stance.==

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