President Obama introduced what he called ”my plan” for “health care reform.”  The next day, the Washington Post noted that “the president for the first time Wednesday embraced a set of ideas as ‘my plan.’”  About the same time, Obama authored a health-care piece in which he referred to “my plan” eight separate times (nine, if you include a set-aside quote).

Now, fast-forward about six months, to just three days before the made-for-TV “health summit,” and, lo and behold, the president released — as if for the first time — a health-care plan. Is he kidding?

Sadly, he’s not.  Instead, the president seems to surmise that the American people have forgotten that he already had a plan and that it looked almost exactly like…well, this one.  The colossal increases in federal spending remain (last projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to total $2.5 trillion in the bill’s real first decade).  The cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA) remain (last projected by the CBO to tally $21,000 per MA beneficiary in the bill’s real first decade).  And most of the political cronyism apparently remains — like the “Gator Aid” deal, which would exempt seniors in South Florida from those MA cuts.  Also back for an encore are the tax increases that would funnel (at last count) $1.0 trillion (in the bill’s real first dozen years) from American taxpayers, through the federal government, to private insurers — alongside the mandate that Americans buy insurers’ product.

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