The Nation’s Health Care Headlines And What Obama’s Sunday TV Blitz Is Up Against

Yesterday we reported that President Obama — who has made more public appearances than perhaps any sitting president in history — will be doing a “El Completo Ginsburg” on Sunday, hitting five Sunday shows. On Monday he’ll be on Letterman. It may be that the health care bill gets passed based purely Obama’s persistent willingness to shill for it.

Then again, maybe not. The media deluge of the last few weeks certainly hasn’t appeared to change the tone of the debate or the headlines. This morning ABC’s Rick Klein twittered out “read through healthcare headlines today and tell me why POTUS wouldn’t want a full Sunday circuit – if only to try to regain some order.” I still think the President should consider taking a chalkboard with him (or employ the term jackass more liberally). In the meantime, here’s a quick look at today’s headlines. It’s not encouraging.

“Baucus Offers Health Plan, Trimming Cost to $856 Billion” (NYT)

“Alarm Bell on Health Reform” (WaPo)

“Senate Health Bill Draws Fire on Both Sides” (NYT)

“Revolving door for health care aides” (Politico)

“Young Adults Likely to Pay Big Share of Reform’s Cost” (WaPo)

“Clergy focus on ethics of health overhaul” (USAT)

“Mandated Health Insurance Squeezes Those in the Middle (WSJ)

“Health costs to rise again” (Boston Globe)

“Snowe falls away, leaving Senate Dems without GOP health support” (The Hill)

“Obama takes heat from other side of immigrant healthcare debate” (LAT)

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