HEALTH CARE: Obama goes to the Hill - What will He do?

[placton]

"After months and months of sparring in the Senate Democratic caucus, the President is stepping in, visiting the Capitol tomorrow.

President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats during the party’s scheduled caucus meeting at the Capitol on Sunday. The meeting will take place before lawmakers vote on a series of amendments to Democrats’ healthcare reform bill, which lawmakers will debate throughout this weekend.

CNN reported that Democratic leaders want him to weigh in on the public option, to break the deadlock over the issue. That’s probably more about Senate Dems wanting to offload responsibility for the decision, but clearly the President has a large voice in this debate, should he choose to use it. And he apparently will tomorrow. Over the past several days, liberal and conservative members of Congress have huddled in multiple discussions aimed at reaching some conclusion to the public option debate. The concept of a public plan competing with private insurance companies still maintains well over majority support in public opinion polls. Sen. Reid and the White House would clearly like to reach agreement on this and other controversial elements of the bill so they can meet the schedule of completing the health care bill by Christmas. The Senate is debating the health care bill, with votes on amendments expected, today and tomorrow."

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What will our president do?

1. Make sure a strong public option is part of the bill, as he repeatedly promised us?

2. Make sure a not so strong public option is part of the bill?

3. Sell us out, by convincing Senators who support a strong public option give in for the good of the party?

4. Other

[WCGreen]

1. I'd say 3....

The public options writen into the bills are far from being, well, public options.

Take what we can get and let the games begin.

Note: I really want Medicare for all but that is not going to happen given this country's love affari with the myths of capitalism.

[Skink]

2. He could put his support behind medicare for all.

[placton]

3. he COULD do that - true

my question asks for predictions - specially from the strong Obama supporters here

[femmocrat]

4. A version of #3. Find "common ground" blah, blah......

Come let us reason together.
Can't we all get along?
Half a loaf is better than none.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

:shrug: :boring:

[placton]

5. indeed - ain't it amazing tho

that folks who support Obama's leadership are not RUSHING to say he will do what he promised?

[Old Codger]

6. Hard to predict

He is a little late, should have been there several times before this ... not a lot of wiggle room left out there

[tsuki]

7. #3 And then he'll throw Harry Reid under the bus. nt

[andym]

8. If I had to guess, he will try to find common ground among the Senators

that is acceptable to all.

Not sure that there really is such a thing, given the breadth of the Democratic political spectrum.