Health Care Summit

Progress already?
Health Care is not a car, that can be recalled and repaired? Rhetorically paraphrasing Lamar Alexander, it is like the Contract for America. My original trigger might not have been relevant, as some of the original planks* might not have made it into legislation. But in fact it was even used in apparent violation of the original intent as a Republican Congress used it and President Clinton vetoed it as being detrimental to the budget. But the real point is that legislation can be recalled and repaired, much easier than a car. It does not even have to be out-of-service or in the shop to get a tune-up. Getting the mechanics to do the job is the problem.

[Obama: Apples and Oranges, me: lemons and Bugs, red, orange, yellow ones(VW). Contrasts house insurance versus health mechanics. Catastrophic options still there but with the fruits and mechanics affordable.(medical not political)]
*[In fact the plank is walked by the president: in fact the first plank of the for America between the Health fruits and the political mechanics- require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress.]
[Yet** Rep. Boustany is back to a mechanical political apples and oranges of polls and messages to a step by step back from reality by ignoring other polls in support of public options. (Apologies for mixed methaphors but it is the only way to transcend the Republican flip-flop.)]
[And then there is Senator McCain. Which was addressed as a charaterizer of the process rather than progress. Not to mention Congressman Cantor. Now it's how's the beef, inspector? Not to mention the sausage or the liver worst of high risk pools and slices (2400+11)of legislation. Meanwhile Rep. Mike Pense grinds the beef on MSNBC. 9:50 AM PST. About bad TV, but several points made my Republicans can be points of agreement, if they are not already addressed. However kudos to Rep. Cummings 10:00, and Andrea Mitchell, 10:05 AM. on Cantor and McCain.(rough times)]

** prior Republican made some interesting apples and oranges which have potential
[I think that there will be some progress made, and that reconciliation may or may not be on the table, but more likely there can be some changes made to the bill or portions that can be Valentined out, and voted up or down piecemeal and get some fruits from our beefs.]