Edward Harrison submits:

Last summer, I heard from a source close to the Obama Administration that the public option was mostly a bargaining tool and that the Obama Administration would only use it in order to pass healthcare reform. Translation: the Obama Administration never supported a public option. While the Obama Administration has never admitted as much, many pundits in the media were aware that this was the likely negotiating tactic. (See Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards?: CJR)

So when I subsequently learned that Big Pharma had been bought off in order to get the healthcare bill passed (see White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost – NYTimes.com), this new tidbit fit very much into the overall negotiating style – which was formed to prevent a repeat of the Hillarycare fiasco in 1994 in my opinion.

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