White House Draft Schedule of Health Care Summit

[jefferson_dem]

READ: White House Draft Schedule Of Health Care Summit
First Posted: 02-23-10 04:20 PM |

President Obama is set to play a fairly engaged role in facilitating discussion and overseeing negotiations during Thursday's bipartisan health care summit, according to a White House draft of the day's schedule.

Running from 10 a.m through 4 p.m., Obama will be in attendance the entire time, spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday. It is not yet known how lawmakers will be seated and in what order they will speak.

But details are starting to trickle out. A White House official sent over a preliminary outline of how the day's events will play out. Broken into four parts, it lacks specific details. But the layout does provide some indication as to how the administration hopes to manage the bipartisan meeting -- with heavy emphasis on the more popular components of the health care legislation, including areas that are traditional Republican concerns (like deficit reduction and cost control).

Here is a breakdown.

1. Discussion:
a. The President will offer opening comments, followed by Republican and Democratic Members chosen by their colleagues.
b. They'll then move to discussions around four themes:
i Controlling costs - introduced by the President
ii. Insurance reforms - introduced by Secretary Sebelius
iii. Reducing the deficit - introduced by the Vice President
iv. Expanding coverage - introduced by the President

2. Logistics:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/read-white-house-draft-sc_n_473774.html?ref=twitter

[zipplewrath]

1. A few missing topics

Here is a breakdown.

1. Discussion:
a. The President will offer opening comments, followed by Republican and Democratic Members chosen by their colleagues.
b. They'll then move to discussions around four themes:
i Controlling costs - introduced by the President
ii. Insurance reforms - introduced by Secretary Sebelius
iii. Reducing the deficit - introduced by the Vice President
iv. Expanding coverage - introduced by the President
V. Why we won't discuss single payer
VI. Why we rolled on the Public Option
VII. Why Senator Nelson must be appeased.
IX. Why Big Pharma trumps all you guys.

[DJ13]

3. +1

:thumbsup:

[Autumn]

4. [phone]

Best I have seen:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: And the grand finale:


X. Why we will pass mandates when there is no public support for them.

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[zipplewrath]

6. I believe VIII is the point of the meeting.

As for X, one might ask why such a popular option won't even be discussed.

[ProSense]

21. .

:rofl:

[freddie mertz]

11. Yes, I think it fair to say they will be skipping those matters.

Reminds me of too many meetings at my job.

You know, the ones where they ask for "input" after they have already made their minds up.

[Cha]

15. That's fuckin' fantasy..President Obama is into

reality.

[zipplewrath]

19. Then here's some reality

The Public Option is wildly popular, well at least OUTSIDE of the White House.
The cadillac tax is unpopular.
The mandatory insurance is unpopular.

[Cha]

23. The White House is doing what they think is

the best strategy to get the best Health Care Reform passed.

[zipplewrath]

24. I wish I could believe that

But Rahm never wanted the public option to begin with. So it's more of a case of self fulfilling prophecy than bending to the realities of the public.

[Cha]

27. The good news for us is ..it's not dependent on that.

[zipplewrath]

28. Too many pronouns

"it's not dependent upon that"? Which isn't dependent upon what?

[Captain Hilts]

2. This won't be on during the US hockey team's gold medal game, will it???

[lordcommander]

8. Thats @ 6:30pm..it should be done by then n/t

[Clio the Leo]

10. Oh you can BELIEVE Barack Obama will be done by then...

... even if they were still going, he'd be like, "yeah, sorry guys, the hockey game's about to start ... we're leaving" (as he, Gibbs and Ax rushed out the door.)

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Mandates, no public option

What's to discuss? I'd like to see the President answer his own campaign rhetoric, and explain how it fits into what he is now presenting.

[freddie mertz]

12. There won't be any progressives asking questions.

There never are.

[jefferson_dem]

14. Durbin, Murray, Harkin, and Rockefeller will be there.

Whether they qualify as progressives and whether they ask questions is unclear. Anyway, the point is not to ask question but to find solutions. But don't worry. I suspect the dolts from the gNOp will ask plenty questions and try to put up plenty roadblocks in order to obstruct progress.

[freddie mertz]

16. They will "behave." I'd bet on it.

The deal has been struck, boys and girls.

[jefferson_dem]

18. As long as it's a deal that guarantees passage...

:woohoo:

I hope you're right.

[jefferson_dem]

13. Like ya!

What's to discuss? After all...mandates and public options are all that need to be addressed regarding reforming the American healthcare system.

[Clio the Leo]

9. lol, one of the bloggers Tweeted today, "The President will be there all 6 hours! Wow!"

... they were legitimately surprised. Must have missed him telling that Town Hall last week, "and we'll be there all day, and you all can watch it all day if you want to. Wouldn't blame you if you got bored though...."

Now MY only question .... WHEN to order the pizza for lunch? :)

[FrenchieCat]

17. The Naysayers will continue to Naysay......

each and every day, in each post, thread after thread...
because he didn't do it their way.

The Republicans will whine as well.

It will be a whine fest around the Internet by those who's agenda
won't let them wait for anything.....
cause it might mess up their whine, because it couldn't be
that we might end up with something (and we already know whatever it is
won't be what they want - Broken fucking record anyone?)

So to those I say....

[zipplewrath]

20. And the faithful remain faithful

You have a heck of an observation there. The unhappy are unhappy and the rest are happy. Study long for that conclusion? Here's one to study. What are all these happy people going to accomplish?

[ProSense]

22. Yeah, but

the faithful are progressively happy, the unhappy are progressively unhappy.

In other words, good news make some people happier and others unhappier.

:rofl:

[Hekate]

25. KnR. 5th Rec. TY for the info!

[Hekate]

26. Any idea who besides CSPAN will carry it? My non-public-utility cable (Cox) only has CSPAN 1....

... and I understand only CSPAN 3 will have it gavel to gavel.

Hekate