Obama may be willing to drop the “public option” on healthcare reform

Publicly Democrats have a united message on the protesters that are appearing at the town hall meetings across the country; they claim that the insurance companies are funding the protesters, they claim that the GOP is organizing the protesters, (as if the GOP has been successful at organizing anything in recent years), they claim that the protesters are being bused in and paid for their outbursts, they claim that the protesters are lying evil-mongers, but privately they know the truth.

And the truth is that the American people just do not support the idea of the government running the healthcare industry, it is as simple as that. They can try to spin the protests any way that they see fit but the American people see the way that Medicare and Medicaid are run and they do not want the government extending their role in healthcare.

In public they can lie about the protesters and they can try to minimize them in an effort to win their propaganda war but the truth is that they are losing that war. In private they realize this even as they demonize the protesters. In the end they may not like it but they understand that if they want to stay in power they will have to listen to the protesters, especially when the polls back up the protesters.

A vast majority of Americans (85%) are happy with their healthcare coverage and are leery of any changes to it. A majority of Americans oppose Obama’s healthcare reform bill. The politicians realize this and today for the first time the White House has acknowledged that the president may be willing to drop the “public option” from the healthcare reform bill.

This is an admission by the White House that the protesters are legitimate, this is an admission by the White House that our calls and our emails may be taking their toll on our representatives. This is an admission that the people just do not support the “public option” portion of the healthcare reform bill. The administration hasn’t come out and said it yet, and they probably will never admit it but, the fact of the matter is that these protesters are average Americans and they do represent the views of average Americans and that is why the “public option” is suddenly negotiable in the president’s eyes.

We are beginning to turn the tide on this bill. Politicians all the way up to the president, whether or not they are willing to admit it or not, are going to be forced to listen to us. We have spoken and we are not happy!