President Obama said during the campaign that he wanted to give Americans an option of buying into a public plan that would compete with the private health insurance industry.

Single payer advocates say the public plan option won’t work – it will be too costly and leaves too many billions of dollars in savings on the table.

But that hasn’t stopped Obama and the public plan forces from pushing ahead.

Yesterday, the architect of the public plan, UC Berkeley’s Jacob Hacker, was in Washington at a press conference unveiling the details.Read More