The more things change, the more they stay the same…<\/p>\n
The White House this morning released a summary<\/a> of President Obama\u2019s latest proposal to reform the U.S. health care system.\u00a0 Billed by the administration as an \u201copening bid\u201d for discussion at the president\u2019s so-called \u201cBipartisan Health Care Summit\u201d later this week, the new plan closely mirrors the Senate-passed legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n In other words, ObamaCare 2.0<\/span> 3.0<\/span> \u2026 12.0<\/span> (sorry, we lost count) is filled with the same tired proposals that the American people have already overwhelmingly rejected:\u00a0 an individual mandate, drastic cuts to Medicare Advantage, taxes on so-called \u201cCadillac\u201d insurance plans, etc., etc., etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n The release of the administration\u2019s latest proposal comes on the heels of reports<\/a> that Congressional Democrats are leaning heavily towards passing ObamaCare via reconciliation, a procedural trick enabling them to circumvent a filibuster of the legislation in the Senate.\u00a0 Indeed, according to<\/a>\u00a0White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, Obama\u2019s latest health care plan was carefully crafted with that in mind.<\/p>\n The proposal is designed to provide \u201cmaximum flexibility to ensure that we can get an up or down vote if the opposition decides to take the extraordinary step of filibustering health reform,\u201d Pfeiffer said on a conference call with reporters this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n Will someone please remind us again what opponents of ObamaCare stand to gain by participating in the sham that is Obama\u2019s \u201cBipartisan\u201d Summit on Thursday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The more things change, the more they stay the same… The White House this morning released a summary of President Obama\u2019s latest proposal to reform the U.S. health care system.\u00a0 Billed by the administration as an \u201copening bid\u201d for discussion at the president\u2019s so-called \u201cBipartisan Health Care Summit\u201d later this week, the new plan closely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,14,879],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-president-obama","tag-white-house-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}