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Previous President Bill Clinton addresses the Netroots Nation Convention with the David L. Lawrence Convention Middle in Pittsburgh. AP Photo
After the toughest week but for health and wellbeing reform, main Democrats are warning that the get together most likely could have to accept serious compromises to have a bill passed this yr – perhaps even dropping a proposal to create a government-run plan that is almost an article of faith among some liberals. With August dominated by angry faces and raised voices at town hall meetings, influential Democrats began laying the groundwork for the fall, particularly with the party's liberal base, saying they may need to accept a less-than-perfect bill to achieve health and fitness reform this 12 months. "Trying to hold the president's feet to the fire is fine, but first we should win the big argument," previous President Bill Clinton said Thursday at the Netroots Nation convention,Office 2010 Professional, a gathering of liberal activists and bloggers who will prove most difficult to convince. "I am pleading with you. It is OK with me if you want to keep everybody honest. . . . But try to keep this thing in the lane of getting something done. We need to pass a bill and move this thing forward." “I want us to be mindful we may need to take less than a full loaf,” he said immediately after recounting the political troubles that followed his failed reform effort in 1994. It won’t be an easy sell. Even previous national get together chairman Howard Dean this week threatened Democrats who don’t support the public insurance plan with the prospect of primary challenges – the first rumblings of what could devolve into a Democratic civil war over overall health care. There is no guarantee,Windows 7 X64, either, that progressive House and Senate members wouldn't make good on their promise to oppose a bill without a public insurance plan. But the signs were everywhere this week that Democrats,Office 2007 Ultimate, stung and seemingly caught by surprise by the vehemence of the opposition to President Barack Obama’s overhaul plans,Office Professional Plus, were already gaming out September and what it would take to get a bill to Obama’s desk. Jettisoning the public plan has always been one option, and even Obama has signaled for weeks that he would consider alternatives to a government insurance plan, which moderate Democratic senators have however to embrace and nearly all Republicans oppose. And in the face of public resistance to Obama’s plans, some top Democrats have begun to talk more openly about the possibility of compromise on a bill. Sen. Dick Durbin,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, said twice this week that he was open to dropping the public plan to pass a bill. “We are determined to obtain a bill to the floor. It doesn't must be a perfect bill. I don't want this process filibustered to failure,” he said. White House health reform czar Nancy-Ann DeParle said recently the president was willing to study replacing the government-run plan with non-profit insurance cooperatives – a compromise under consideration in the Senate Finance Committee. Writing in a Washington Post op-ed, Democratic strategist Paul Begala, who is close to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, warned progressives against turning their backs on reform if it doesn’t include everything they want. As a previous consultant to Clinton during the wellness care battle, Begala said he carries "a heavy burden of regret from my role in setting the bar too high the last time we tried fundamental health reform." He had urged Clinton to veto any bill short of guaranteeing universal overall health care. “It would be a bitter disappointment if wellbeing reform did not include a public option,” he wrote. "A public plan that keeps the insurance companies honest is, I believe, the right policy and the right politics. . . . The question is not whether I or other progressives will support a health-reform bill that includes everything we want but, rather, whether we will support a bill that doesn't.” There were other hints of compromise. When the congressional Democratic leadership and the White House issued August recess talking points before leaving town, the public plan was not among the proposals members were encouraged to emphasize.