Health-Care: Obama Looks Ready to Cave on Public Option

And his allies in creating universal health coverage are pissed off:

More than 70 House Democrats recently warned party leaders that they will not support a broad health reform bill that does not offer consumers a government-sponsored policy, and two unions withdrew from a high-profile health coalition because it would not endorse a public plan.

"It's way too early" to abandon what it considers a central plank in health reform, said Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union. He said the organization pulled out of the bipartisan Health Reform Dialogue because it feared its friends in the coalition were sacrificing core principles too soon. "You don't make compromises with your allies."

So he's looking at compromising on what should be one of the goals of the program:

Many Republicans and industry executives say that any program modeled after Medicare -- with its power to set prices -- would have an unfair advantage over private-sector competitors and eventually force some companies out of business.

Destroying private health insurance companies in the US should be one of the goals.

They are in large part responsible for the problem, and taking them down has the overwhelming support of everyone who has had to deal with them.

If there is not a public insurance option, I will contact my Congressman and ask him to vote against it.