ObamaCare: Same Old Plan, Even Some Dems Oppose

The President has unveiled the "compromise" health care bill that he wants to ram through with reconciliation, if the Republicans don't respond to his "bipartisan summit" by suddenly becoming liberals and supporting his liberal bill. Unsurprisingly, it's the same old bill we've been looking at, and the only thing bipartisan about it is the opposition to it: even some Democrats oppose it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33322.html

The White House opened its last-ditch push for health reform Monday by releasing a $950 billion plan that signaled a new phase of hands-on presidential involvement.

But by day’s end, President Barack Obama was staring down all the same old problems.

Republicans called it a retread of the same bills Americans have panned, even though it included some GOP ideas. “Déjà vu all over again,” said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.).

Democrats and labor unions didn’t rush to embrace it, either, with some disappointed by the absence of a public insurance option. Congressional Democratic aides also complained of being left in the dark by the White House, asking for a preview of the bill Friday, only to be denied by White House aides, according to multiple sources.

And Obama’s plan did nothing to answer the central question facing Democrats: how to get a bill through the Senate — now one vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority — in one of the most toxic environments for incumbents in recent memory. Even with the first presidential plan on the table, there was no guarantee Democrats could pull off health reform this year.

The underlying assumption of this bill is still the same, assuming that massive government intervention and regulation is the best (if not only) way to go. Here's hoping that the Republicans remain united against it, because it's still a very bad bill.

So it's the same old bill... except PresBo managed to make it even more expensive than the Senate OR House bills. Clocking in at $950 billion, it hardly demonstrates fiscal restraint.