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The public option was the political compromise, not the proposal Democrats ever wanted. It was what people thought feasible to get, not the goal. Anyone running on it is either a heavy recipient of corporate cash from the industry who has obvious financial incentives to not actually address healthcare in office, or someone who is a okay with millions dying without health insurance or underinsured to protect the healthcare industry profits. Because even someone who legitimately wants everyone to have health insurance but thinks m4a isn't politically feasible would be running on it and willing to compromise down to the public option if it's all they could get. If you are running on it you are absolutely useless.