Giving up health-care reform's public option for what, exactly?

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PRESIDENT Obama needs to resuscitate his health-care-reform effort but jettisoning his public insurance plan would be a mistake.

The biggest reasons to reform health care is to lower costs and expand access to quality health care. The president has convincingly argued that the public option provides the better route forward.

Yet, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says a public option is not an essential element of reform. Obama now calls it one sliver of an overall effort.

This is a belated development. Until the reform debate was taken over by right-wing machinations, including ludicrous charges of "death panels," a public option was the central tenet of reform.

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