Costs and the political calendar are catching up with health care reform.
Having bet the farm, President Barack Obama needs a win and is willing to settle for a cheaper bill and a weaker public insurance option. Democrats in Congress, increasingly worried about the 2010 elections, want stronger medicine for fear the reforms will prove to be a house of cards if working-class voters can’t afford the coverage promised.
That’s a big, underappreciated reason why the public option has resurfaced in recent weeks in what’s really a proxy war for the affordability debate.
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