ObamaCare: Here Comes Plan C – Update – Video Added

I hope they have to go through the entire alphabet on this. That should buy us enough time to get to the November elections when this nonsense can be killed once and for all. But, perhaps I’m being a bit premature. My earlier question seems to have been answered. They don’t have the votes to pass ObamaCare as is, so they’re floating the idea of a Plan C.

Fox News: Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said the speaker was trying to say the new Obama health care proposal would take its policy cues from the Senate health bill and the ideas Obama posted online a week ago.

Elshami did not deny Pelosi’s comments about a “much smaller” bill could fairly be interpreted as suggesting a step back from the Senate bill. Instead, Pelosi has come to regard the Senate bill itself as “much smaller” than the House bill, Elshami said.

White House officials also said Obama’s not dramatically scaling back his proposal. No one was prepared to discuss a price tag, but it appears the ballpark 10-year figure of $1 trillion remains.

The revisions, it appears, will focus on adding GOP ideas on tort reform and selling insurance across state lines. White House Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes spoke extensively to Fox today about White House staff dealing with these two issues over the weekend (see post below).

Democrats described inclusion of medical malpractice and selling insurance across state lines as a last-ditch effort to win Republican support. Already, White House officials and Democrats have begun to argue that bipartisanship can be defined as legislation including Republican ideas, even if Republicans unanimously vote against it.

The first “bipartisan” bill that will pass on a party line vote. That also answers my question about Schumer, I suppose. As for the Republican ideas, will there be real tort reform, or will we get pilot programs, as they’ve mentioned in the past?

You have to hand it to this gang, they never give up. Neither should you – time to light up the phone lines!

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Update: Just in case you haven’t seen enough of Madame Speaker.