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Obama’s Healthy Public

Obama is ‘pleased’ the Senate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, according to the White House press secretary.
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“The President congratulates Senator Reid and Chairmen Baucus and Dodd for their hard work on health insurance reform. Thanks to their efforts, we’re closer than we’ve ever been to solving this decades-old problem. And while much work remains, the President is pleased that at the progress that Congress has made. He’s also pleased that the Senate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, in this case with an allowance for states to opt out. As he said to Congress and the nation in September, he supports the public option because it has the potential to play an essential role in holding insurance companies accountable through choice and competition,” says White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in reaction to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s press conference on health care.

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