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TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Wasted Effort

From the start of the health care reform debate President Obama has insisted that creating a government-provided “public option” to compete with private insurance companies is critical to comprehensive reform. But is the administration now hinting that it is willing to forsake such an option in the interest of getting a bill passed? We investigate in today’s Sunday Show Roundup

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