Above the Fold or below the Fold, the Washington Post Still Folds
No Longer an Option To pass health reform, the Obama administration will have to ditch its goal of a public plan. Thursday, August 20, 2009 MAYBE THE White House meant to signal that it was backing away from its commitment to a "public option" as part of new health insurance exchanges. Or maybe the hedging words of administration officials were over-interpreted on an otherwise sleepy Sunday morning in August. It doesn't much matter, because, either way, the reality is that, if the Obama administration wants to get health reform done, it's going to have to back away from the public option sooner or later -- and it's getting awfully late.
___________________________________________ Awfully late, or just awfully reported? The Washington Post, caught between 1st and 2nd with a plan to sell access to its staff to paid lobbyist 'salons' at its publishers home, has (instead) sold itself and its readers directly to the . . . what shall we call them? . . . paid subscribe…