- Beware Obama's Bipartisan Compromise Strategy for Health Care Reform

- Beware Obama's Bipartisan Compromise Strategy for Health Care Reform: "Back on July 29 when I posted, 'Reject Health Care Cooperatives -- Trojan Horse for the Public Option,' I was warning about a possible betrayal by Senate Republicans through their drafting of a bipartisan compromise bill in the Senate Finance Committee. This bipartisan compromise bill is still under construction by a six-member working group of three Democrats (led by Chairman Max Baucus) and three Republicans (led by Sen. Chuck Grassley). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has given this committee a deadline of September 15 for reporting their bill out of committee.

Nonetheless, based on Thursday's New York Times article, 'Obama Is Taking an Active Role in Talks on Health Care Plan,' we now know that President Obama has been very much involved in the construction of this bipartisan compromise bill for many months. From this article it appears that the President and his advisors have devised a clever strategy for bringing about a government takeover of the health care industry which includes a Plan A and a Plan B. Plan A would be the passage of health care reform as embodied in the Democrats' House bill, H.R. 3200. Plan B would be the passage of health care reform as embodied in a bipartisan health care compromise bill as is being drafted by the Senate Finance Committee."