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To: tejek who wrote (506040)	8/18/2009 11:17:10 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578015

So you think the public option is still alive? "I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform." "Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue. " These do not sound like the statements of people who are confident the "public option" is going to survive. washingtonpost.com