NU Online News Service, April 15, 3:40 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON–The Obama administration might compromise on its goal of a "public" option for health care insurance by considering proposals allowing private insurers to run such a program, a key presidential adviser said today.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, made her comments during a Healthcare Reform Newsmaker breakfast sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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