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...media to reach Americans in their homes and get them on board with the largely Democratic efforts to pass sweeping legislation this year. The talking points, the style and the tone were all familiar, but the result is unlikely to affect either the inside game (the strategic battle with Congress) or the outside game (convincing the American people to jump on board). (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...What sacrifices will Americans have to make under his proposals? Why hasn't the White House been more transparent about the policymaking process, as then candidate Obama promised? Would he insist that members of Congress face the same limits on choice and access to care as the people getting their insurance from the new public health-care plan he advocates? Those were among the excellent questions hurled at the President, and he countered only with partial responses and vague rhetoric...
...Meanwhile, what Congress has produced thus far is coming under increasing criticism - not just from Republicans but from credible, nonpartisan sources like the Congressional Budget Office and the Mayo Clinic, which Obama often cites as a model of what an efficient, high-quality health-care system would look like. While the bills that are on the table do a good job of expanding medical coverage to the 47 million or so Americans who now lack it, outside experts say, they fall short of meeting Obama's other main goal, which is to transform the health system in ways that bring...
...July 21, he met for more than two hours with the Blue Dog faction. At the end of the session, the Blue Dogs agreed to press House leaders to include in the bill a provision that would take the job of setting Medicare rates out of the hands of Congress and give it to an independent agency. Presumably, that agency would have more expertise and be less susceptible to political pressure. Obama Budget Director Peter Orszag has called such a move a "game changer" that could bring down health-care costs, though no one has a precise estimate...
...beginning, and maybe a sign of more specifics to come from the Obama White House. Predicts one presidential confidant: "He's going to become increasingly specific - and increasingly persistent." Democrats in Congress say that can't come a moment too soon...