Americans do NOT support the Public Option

According to the New York Times / CBS poll
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/09/25/us/politics/25pollgrx.html

65% - SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT - want a PUBLIC OPTION.

Well, technically, the WORD "public" was not in the poll.

It uses the term "government-administered insurance."

I do understand that there are some people who will swear that “public option” is not the same as “government-administered insurance,” but, for the life of me, I’ll be satisfied with either one.

I suspect Keith Olbermann was confusing the number who support the public option (or "government-administered insurance”) with the number who support the need for some kind of reform (that might not include the public option).

As for the idea that if that many “Americans supported the public option it would have been enacted by now”, don’t be naïve.

Too many legislators, FROM BOTH PARTIES, are bought and paid for by Big Insurance.
They represent the megabucks, not the every day real people.