Republicans' Obamacare Stance Is 'Height Of Hypocrisy,' House Democrats Say

How about a fact or two. What is this "campaign pledge" you speak of regarding the public option. Obama never dropped it. HE NEVER PICKED IT UP. Not once did Obama advocate for a public option and no matter where you search you will never find a quote of him doing so. Because he never did. The closest he ever came was saying if congress sent him a public option he would sign it. So what was that campaign pledge?

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Really?

Obama Takes Up Public Health Care Option In AMA Speech

"The public option is not your enemy, it is your friend," Obama declared at one point.
His prepared remarks were a bit more detailed:

If you don't like your health coverage or don't have any insurance, you will have a chance to take part in what we're calling a Health Insurance Exchange.... You will have your choice of a number of plans that offer a few different packages, but every plan would offer an affordable, basic package. And one of these options needs to be a public option that will give people a broader range of choices and inject competition into the health care market so that force waste out of the system and keep the insurance companies honest.

And from the Obama ’08 campaign document, "Barack Obama’s Plan for a Healthy America":

The Obama plan both builds upon and improves our current insurance system, upon which most Americans continue to rely, and leaves Medicare intact for older and disabled Americans. The Obama plan also addresses the large gaps in coverage that leave 45 million Americans uninsured. Specifically, the Obama plan will: (1) establish a new public insurance program available to Americans who neither qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP nor have access to insurance through their employers, as well as to small businesses that want to offer insurance to their employees; (2) make available the National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans and businesses that want to purchase private health insurance directly; (3) require all employers to contribute towards health coverage for their employees; (4) mandate all children have health care coverage; (5) expand Medicaid and SCHIP to cover more of the least well-off among us; and (6) allow state flexibility for state health reform plans.
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