Health-Care Reform: Obama Finesses the Public Plan from Time Magazine

"The headlines and news coverage coming out of the Aug. 16 shows might have seemed to mark a major turn in the debate over health-care reform. WHITE HOUSE BACKS AWAY FROM PUBLIC HEALTH CARE OPTION, cried Politico.com. ... But was this big news? .... Hardly a new development, considering that the White House and the President have been sounding pretty flexible for months on the subject of a public option."