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I read your comment and this does no better to explain your point. The carrot he dangled was to get Neslon to vote FOR the bill not to buy his support for pro corporate legislation. The npublic option was never even put on the table so he didn't have to worry about anyone voting for it.

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The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.  Prior to that, Obama and Democrats had been dangling it in front of the country in a "wait, we'll add it just before the bill gets passed".

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconciliation anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.  Those who believe that Obama's healthcare legislation is "incremental change", it institutionalizes the insurance industry as the gatekeepers to medical treatment (requiring having a job, too), which is something that everybody wanted to end.  And there never will be a public option or any kind of affordable, quality medical care for all as long as Obama and DLC-controlled Democrats are in office: "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Obama Never Was For It".  Watch it and weep.
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