Obama's media blitz: The public option absolutely is not dead

The public option has not been taken off the table in the nation's healthcare debate, President Barack Obama flatly declared Sunday.

Obama, appearing on the Spanish-language Univision's "Al Punto" program on Sunday, rejected the idea that he had abandoned the public (or "government-run") option for which he'd expressed much previous support.

"I absolutely do not believe that it's dead," Obama told Univision. "I think that it's something that we can still include as part of a comprehensive reform effort."

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