Health Care Reform: The left and conservatives Join Against Plan

The left flank of the Democratic Party is opening up a new front in the war on the watered-down health care bill: It’s taking aim at Obama’s claim that it would “provide” coverage for 30 million more Americans.

This claim has become central to the White House and Senate leadership’s efforts to sell the bill to the left, despite the jettisoning of core liberal priorities. Obama recently told supporters that “the bill you least like” would “provide 29 million Americans health care.”

Now we learn from WAPO The Senate health-care bill could enable insurers to avoid some of the strongest consumer protections and benefit requirements adopted by state governments.

"Practically speaking, insurers will domicile their plans in states with less stringent regulations and market to the population in more protective states like ours, just like nationally chartered banks have done," the House members led by Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) wrote on behalf of lawmakers from the two states. Let's talk about this and other political issues tonight on African American Political Slugfest, "If you can handle the truth."