After digesting the comments on my diary yesterday, I had some more thoughts on this question.
With the (small sample-72) poll showing 50% feeling that President Obama does not want a public option, my first thought was, see he really does not want one. But I now realize many feel that he does not want one because he genuinely feels now or has always felt that the PO would not get the votes required to pass. I could see President Obama and his advisers, calculating this to be the case a year ago, more or less, from a general perspective of what they believed the political system would tolerate. By political system I mean Congress and the corporate interests which comprises the status quo to be shifted. Obviously, a PO would never be in the corporate interest. But given the grass roots popularity of a wide based government based health care system like single payer or as a huge compromise, a strong viable public option, I would think the president, being a person open to new information, would have changed his perspective.
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