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The A.F.L-C.I.O and the Service Employees International Union, two of the country’s top most labor organizations and strong allies of the Obama administration, have with held their of the senate health care bill now that the senate has dropped the public option. Instead, they are promising to renew their fight for the public option, a government-run insurance program, and for other provisions once the senate agrees on a final bill and melds it with the House bill, which does provide for a public notion. The A.F.L.-C.I.O took much the track, calling the senate bill inadequate and too kind to the insurance industry. The House bill, he said is the model for original health care reform. But families USA, a consumer group, did endorse the senate bill saying its positive provisions outweigh the negative ones. Many unions and advocacy groups had backed up an earlier version of the senate health care legislation but were infuriated when the public option was dropped; also falling by the wayside was a compromise measure that would have expanded Medicare to some people over 55. Those improvements he said include stretching insurance coverage to 30 million people and drew subsidies to help people buy health insurance, as well as measured banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.