White House quietly drafting fallback healthcare bill, report says

Sounds like a Plan B...

The Obama Administration is quietly drawing up its own healthcare plan behind the scenes as a fallback measure should healthcare legislation get tied up in Congress, according to a report Wednesday.

The report, printed in the registration-restricted Capitol Hill publication Roll Call, alleges that the administration may have a fully fledged healthcare bill in the wings, aimed at enticing moderate Democrats and even some Republicans to jump on board. It also posits that Obama may have had a reason for being so specific about a potential bill's pricetag -- no more than $900 billion -- because his team had already drafted their own bill behind the scenes.

Keith Koffler, who wrote the piece for the paper, says that the bill may never see the light of day, as the White House is waiting to see if a piece of legislation can emerge from Congress on its own. But political observers see the success of a healthcare measure as being a cornerstone of an Obama re-election effort, and so a backup plan should the process stall in Congress is likely.
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