Patients own their own health plan

UPDATE: No ObamaCare vote before the recess, according to the Politico. YES! Go home and listen to your constituents, Congress! Never mind, Nancy says not so fast. (One of the most unpopular pols in America.)***The Republican alternative. Rep. Tom Price, who's also a doctor, weighs in on ABC's Top Line. Video here.

More. Cautionary tales on Tennessee's existing plan. TWS:

At the Biloxi, Mississippi, gathering of the National Governors Association in mid-July, Tennessee's Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, told the New York Times he feared the Obama-backed health system overhaul would be the "mother of all unfunded mandates." He was speaking from experience. Bredesen was elected governor in 2002 to fix TennCare--the state's public option, launched in 1994 to replace Medicaid and cover the uninsured. Now, well into his second term as governor, he's still struggling to tame the monster.

You'd think those crafting the federal reform of health care would be interested.