Posted on 10/04/2009 10:17:42 AM PDT by underthestreetlite
White House discreetly labors to weave coalition on health care
WASHINGTON - Despite months of seeming ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched an intensifying behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea in the weeks just ahead.
President Barack Obama has long advocated a so-called public option, while at the same time repeatedly expressing openness to other ways to offer consumers a potentially more affordable alternative to health plans sold by private insurers.
But now, senior administration officials are holding private meetings almost daily at the Capitol with senior Democratic staff to discuss ways to include a version of the public plan in the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to bring to the Senate floor later this month, according to senior Democratic congressional aides.
Among those regularly in the meetings are Obama's top health care adviser, Nancy-Ann DeParle, aides to Reid, and Senate finance and health committee staff, both of which developed health care bills.
At the same time, Obama has been reaching out personally to rank-and-file Senate Democrats, telephoning more than a dozen lawmakers in the last week to press the case for action.
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And why shouldn’t he? He’s a neo-Marxist. This is no surprise.
This is news?
He needs to be removed from office. Now.
Only because the MSM reported it, lol
The i-pres wants his monument.
I’m stuned!
He’s transparent all right. But not in the way he promised he’d be. He’s a dyed-in-the-wool Communist.
They can’t create a Socialist health care system unless they destroy the private one.
Once done, every American will be on the hook to the federal bureaucracy, and will be “equal” with the lowliest Mesoamerican illegal alien peasant as they all stand in line waiting for medical treatment.
Anything that man says is a LIE!
He has ALWAYS backed the single-payer system. And the voting electorate has NO excuse for not already knowing this.
We all knew that. What we didn't know is that he hasn't got the leadership skills to tell any one about it.
I guess we’ve gone from the Great Communicator to the Great Behind the Scenes Intimidator.
They don’t care what actually passes, they just need something to pass. Whatever passes, they’ll enforce whatever they feel like and get the courts to rule that what they wanted in the first place was what passed. If the final bill is one line that says “Health care is good” the courts will rule that free universal health care is clearly spelled out in the law, that it covers illegals, and that the Feds can raise taxes however much they wish to cover it.
What? The president is a sleazy, lying, leftist who’ll do anything to get his agenda?
I’m shocked, SHOCKED!
Well, duh. Where is the Master of the Obvious picture?
Why don’t he and Moochelle sell the public option to us like they sold the olympics in Chicago to the IOC?
I mean certainly they are capable of selling the benefits of a product that they wholeheartedly believe in to those whom would benefit by such a product...right?
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