ObamaCare 2.0: What's wrong with this picture

Scott Stantis cartoon. Is our President Barack Obama the Cargo Cult president? Dennis Byrne: Are the Dems really that clueless about health care? Even the mild Megan McArdle: Reviving ObamaCare, A Big Mistake.

Heritage: Can They Make Obamacare Worse? Yes They Can!

More. Philip Klein, TAS looks at the votes in the House, (abortion reopened) and the implications for the Indiana Senate race.

Stupak: Obama's Health Care Plan "Unacceptable" on Abortion

And the "Party of No" plan has a CBO score, unlike our President Barack Obama's.

Hmm, via Huffpo--Rockefeller Not Inclined To Support Reconciliation For The Public Plan. He thinks it's overly partisan. Whaddaya know.

More. Rasmussen: 41% Favor Obama's Health Care Plan, 56% Oppose

Sixty-three percent (63%) of all voters say a better strategy to reform the health care system would be to pass smaller bills that address problems individually.

There's your bipartisanship. But will the president embrace this? Not a chance. He's cut it off at the knees, even before his summit.

More. Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun Times:

The Obama administration is beating the drums of outrage over double-digit rate increases by health insurers. You're hearing no similar White House complaining about Medicaid cuts being implemented or considered by most states.

Beating up on insurance companies is good populist politics to drum up support for President Obama's latest $1 trillion incarnation of health-care overhaul unveiled Monday. Owning up to the Medicaid cuts would constitute an acknowledgment of the insolvency of government-run health care and expose Obamacare as banking in part on a program already bankrupting state budgets. [snip]

Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of faculty of medicine at Harvard University, offers ideas that could actually start bending the cost curve: Give individuals the same tax break as employers and encourage high-deductible insurance policies coupled with medical savings accounts. Confronting Americans with the actual costs of medical care could mean their swallowing bitter medicine. Still, putting individuals in charge of their own medical spending, Flier reasonably argues, is the path to controlling costs, curtailing questionable treatment and inspiring innovative, less expensive care.