Just for the record, it's not Republicans or the American people demanding the government option; it's Democrats doing that.
Democrats Demand Obama Keep Government Health Plan
August 18, 2009 by Catherine Dodge and Edwin Chen
Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is facing pressure from fellow Democrats to keep a government-run insurance plan in a health-care overhaul, with House lawmakers threatening to withhold support without it.
“To take the public option off the table would be a grave error,” leaders of the 83-member Congressional Progressive Caucus said in a letter last night to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “Passage in the House of Representatives depends upon inclusion of it.”
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