Day By Day February 25, 2010 – The Rules

The Dog and Pony show on Obamacare is about to begin this morning. The President and Congressional Democrats have wasted a year in massaging this supposed “comprehensive” health care reform bill.

But, as the media gathers and the White House prepares the show, Obama has already floated a Plan “B.”

President Barack Obama will use a bipartisan summit Thursday to push for sweeping health-care legislation, but if that fails to generate enough support the White House has prepared the outlines of a more modest plan.

His leading alternate approach would provide health insurance to perhaps 15 million Americans, about half what the comprehensive bill would cover, according to two people familiar with the planning.

It would do that by requiring insurance companies to allow people up to 26 years old to stay on their parents’ health plans, and by modestly expanding two federal-state health programs, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, one person said. The cost to the federal government would be about one-fourth the price tag for the broader effort, which the White House has said would cost about $950 billion over 10 years.

Officials cautioned that no final decisions had been made but said the smaller plan’s outlines are in place in case the larger plan fails.

One wonders why this modest proposal took over a year of political machinations to submit?

BECAUSE OBAMACARE HAS FAILED.

President Obama should admit his Obamacare health care reform plan is NOT going to pass the Congress, is out of favor with the American public and start working with the Republicans to obtain some meaningful health care reform.

But, that would be asking alot now, wouldn’t it?

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