<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a9b4c85a-c1ef-4a25-88e4-e304ba15f274/33F42906-486F-4C09-9F33-93A9264119EB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/" href="http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/" style="font-size: 11px;">healthspectator.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/"><P>Just yesterday we wrote that Max Baucus (D-Mont) had finally circulated details of a Senate Finance Committee health care framework that would not include the so-called public option.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/"><P>Then, in his speech before a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama put the public option back on the table. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/"><P>To do otherwise would seem to have been political suicide for Obama. There’s little doubt that his healthcare platform had a lot to do with his winning the election, and he will bitterly disappoint those followers who are expecting some public plan in health care if he does not at least go down fighting for that cause. So it would seem that the injection of the public option into the mix was the least he could do.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/"><P>So now, liberals are somewhat encouraged that some form of national health care might yet happen in a reasonable time frame, though it has been about 35 years since the decidely non-liberal Richard Nixon <A href="http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/24/what-does-single-payer-mean/" linkindex="4">proposed it</A> and of course others have after him.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/33F42906-486F-4C09-9F33-93A9264119EB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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