Following up on dday’s post below, I see that Jon Cohn is also reading the tea leaves and seeing that Obama is blessing not only the MEDPac idea, (which actually comes from the white house) but also the repeal of the employer tax exclusion, which the CBO Chief hinted broadly would get his blessing if included in the plan (and which I said they should do if only for that reason.) He’s specifically saying that he is intrigued by what we are calling the “Kerry plan,” as previously reported, which, as I wrote yesterday, seems like a rather elegant solution to the political aspects of that problem.
