Here's the type of health care reform Obama NEEDS to get behind

The Chief Thug needs to come to the understanding that the "progressive" version of "health care reform", including the "public option, is dead in the water.

Why?

Only the most looniest of lefties really wants to support an out of control spending approach that covers slackers and illegal aliens, at the cost of sacrificing quality of life health care for seniors.

If Obama and his "progressive" enablers REALLY want reform in a program that most people will support, THIS is an approximation of what it should contain.

Key point:

"Mr. Obama is backing himself into a corner by insisting on the false political dilemma of either doing nothing or putting U.S. health care into government hock. This leaves him trying to pick off one or two Republicans to give a facade of bipartisanship and then ramming government control into law; or else failing to pass anything and damaging his Presidency.

This political leap of bad faith is already scaring moderates in Mr. Obama’s own party, as well as voters concerned about the tax increases and medical rationing that it will require. There is a middle way to success, Mr. President, but it means pursuing policies that are true to your campaign rhetoric about bipartisanship rather than to the liberal dream of government-run health care."

The odds are that he won't do it.

As I said elsewhere about him: hubris.

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