This is very good. It's the kind of thing administration officials should be saying:
Dr. Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that she had "personally been quite persuaded that the public option can be an important source of cost growth containment," during a speech at the Center for American Progress.
Romer cited a case study of counties in California where the introduction of a government-run plan helped bring down overall costs in the private market....
Romer would not make the same predictions of cost-containment when asked about the trigger, saying that there was insufficient data as to how it would work.
"As I said, the evidence even on public and private,I think, isn't all there still. It is something where we are still collecting evidence. Knowing what a trigger will do is, I think, beyond anything that we have a lot of evidence on.
