With officials’ latest comments, bottom line remains unclear
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped of short of calling it a must-have part of an overhaul.
As President Barack Obama prepares for a Wednesday night speech to Congress in a risky bid to salvage his top domestic priority, no other issue is so highly charged. Obama's liberal supporters consider the proposal for a public plan to compete with private insurers do-or-die. Republicans say it's unacceptable. It's doubtful the public plan can pass the Senate.
White House political adviser David Axelrod said Obama is "not walking away" from a public plan. But asked if the president would veto a bill that came to him without the option, Axelrod declined to answer.
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How is this a shift. Obama has been saying he thinks a public option is best, but a lack of the option in legislation is NOT a deal breaker.
ReplyDelete"There's a third reason: The back-and-forth over the public option is much easier for the media to understand than the debate over other health policy minutiae".
ReplyDeleteThis is the smoke and mirrors they will now use to try to get the rest of 3200 passed! THE WHOLE THING IS GARBAGE!!!! Throw the whole thing out and fix the problems we're having with our health insurances.
Change you can believe in...The SHIFT.
ReplyDeleteA shift by any other name would smell as sweet. (or sour)