Obama Offers to Let Governors Propose Alternative Health Care Law

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FOX News:

President Obama offered Monday to let states design their own alternatives to the federal health care overhaul provided they fulfill certain goals.

Speaking to a gathering of the nation's governors, Obama opened the door for any state executives who think they can tackle rising health care costs and coverage barriers better than he can to step up to the plate and try it. The catch, Obama said, is that their plans would have to achieve at least what his administration claims the federal overhaul achieves with regard to coverage and cost.

"If your state can create a plan that can cover as many people as affordably and comprehensively as the Affordable Care Act does, without increasing the deficit, you can implement that plan and we'll work with you to do it," Obama said.

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Interesting... There is a law, but if you keep Obama happy, you can work around it?

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As the British say...BULLOCKS

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Politico:

Jennifer Haberkorn reports that President Obama's move to allow states flexibility in spending health care funds is the "most significant change" since the law was enacted, and a potential gesture toward critics.

But a source on a White House conference call with liberal allies this morning says the Administration is presenting it to Democrats as an opportunity to offer more expansive health care plans than the one Congress passed.

Health care advisers Nancy-Ann DeParle and Stephanie Cutter stressed on the off-record call that the rule change would allow states to implement single-payer health care plans -- as Vermont seeks to -- and true government-run plans, like Connecticut's Sustinet.

The source on the call summarizes the officials' point -- which is not one the Administration has sought to make publically -- as casting the new "flexibility" language as an opportunity to try more progressive, not less expansive, approaches on the state level.

"They are trying to split the baby here: on one hand tell supporters this is good for their pet issues, versus a message for the general public that the POTUS is responding to what he is hearing and that he is being sensible," the source emails.
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If this administration were any more two-faced Obama would have two heads...