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Progressive TV/radio personality Ed Schultz says he remains hopeful that President Barack Obama will step up and fight for a public option on health insurance, but that if the president doesn’t he could face trouble winning a second term.

“I think he’s an honest man,” Schultz said about Obama and his pledge to launch a public health option to compete with private insurance plans. “I think he’s got a lot of forces who are trying to derail his effort to do that.”

(The story summary continues below.)

Schultz said he was concerned when Senate health insurance meetings excluded advocates for a single-payer plan, but he believes that Obama realizes that he can't accept defeat of his plan to offer a public option as competition to the private insurance programs.

“If the president wavers on this, there will be a backlash,” Schultz said. “He could be a one-term wonder.”

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