White House Drafting Health Care Legislation

By GottaLaff

Obama is letting the Hill slug it out while he gets busy:

CNN has learned that the White House "is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months."

White House aides "are preparing for the possibility they could deliver their own legislation to Capitol Hill sometime after the President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday."

Obama will "lay out a path to reform in his speech next week that the White House hopes can bridge the various differences in the competing proposals. Sources expect the president to emphasize the message: If Congress passes something now, it will serve as a foundation to pass further reform in the future."

We already have a foundation, and it's crumbling. It's time to build, not to patch or repave.