This past weekend, President Obama and officials of his administration suggested that a federally administered "public-option" is not an integral component for health-care reform legislation. Today, many of the president's liberal supporters are dismayed, if not outraged, that the White House may be intimating a willingness to concede on the creation of what they argue is a vital cost-controlling mechanism for any revamped health-care system. Some have said that any legislation devoid of a public-option that is enacted would not constitute reform.
I do not share these sentiments.
Contrarily, I wonder if President Obama is attempting to galvanize his liberal base; spurring them to mobilize and challenge the scurrilous accusations leveled at him by his political opponents.
One can only hope.
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