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President Obama gave signs that the public option may not be an absolute deal breaker. The Takeaway talks to Julie Mason, White House reporter for the Washington Examiner, and Michael Pramenko, a family physician in Grand Junction.
Over the weekend, representatives of the Obama administration started signaling that various aspects of proposals to reform health care may be more negotiable than previously expected. Teddy Roosevelt first inserted national health coverage as a party plank 97 years ago, in 1912 ? as the debate grinds on in D.C., on the air, and across the country, is it “dejà vu all over again?”
In a town hall debate symbolically held in Grand Junction, Colorado, the President gave signs that the public option, previously cited as a critical piece of any reform of the health care system, may not be an absolute deal breaker. We talk to Julie Mason, White House reporter for the Washington Examiner and Dr. Michael Pramenko, a family physician in Grand Junction.