{"id":675321,"date":"2010-02-25T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/and-if-this-healthcare-proposal-fails-heres-obamas-plan-c-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:42:14","slug":"and-if-this-healthcare-proposal-fails-heres-obamas-plan-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675321","title":{"rendered":"And If This Healthcare Proposal Fails, Here’s Obama’s Plan C"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today The White House is holding a “bipartisan” healthcare summit, which will be televized at 10:00.<\/p>\n

(We’ve outlined the details of the current proposal here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But if it fails, Obama actually has a third plan, according to Laura Meckler at WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s pretty modest sounding, and it would end up covering about half as many people as the “comprehensive” schemes that have been floated so far:<\/p>\n

It would do that by requiring insurance companies to allow people up to 26 years old to stay on their parents’ health plans, and by modestly expanding two federal-state health programs, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, one person said. The cost to the federal government would be about one-fourth the price tag for the broader effort, which the White House has said would cost about $950 billion over 10 years.<\/p>\n

So basically this would help kids and just-graduated college students, two groups that tend to fall through the cracks. We could see the GOP getting behind this, though it’d be a huge disappointment to progressives.<\/p>\n

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