[Servant of the Cross]

[FrankR]

[WayneS]

This 'flexibility' is nothing more than a transparent attempt to shift the upcoming blame for the inevitable utter failure of "obamacare" FROM those who are actually responsible for it, Barack Obama, his handlers and democrats in congress, TO those who are not, the States.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

...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.