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'Public Option' Pales Next to Single Payer

The following remarks were delivered to a closed-door meeting the Congressional Progressive Caucus on June 4, 2009:

Today the Congressional Progressive Caucus faces a choice. That choice is whether Members should maintain their unflinching support for single-payer, or to accede to intense political pressure to support the plan currently being developed in Congress under the direction of President Obama: a mandate for Americans to purchase an insurance plan from a massive new regulatory “exchange,” with one plan potentially being a “public option.”

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