The Politico | MIKE ALLEN

The White House on Tuesday posted a three-minute video punching back at an old clip of President Barack Obama that was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”

The White House response features Linda Douglass, formerly an ABC News correspondent and now a White House official, showing Drudge’s homepage on the screen of her office computer.

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House deputy communications director, said: “We intend to use a lot of the grassroots viral Internet techniques from the campaign to beat back the campaign of misstatements and outright falsehoods about the president’s efforts to reform health insurance.”

Real Clear Politics | David Shribman

Here are some numbers that you need to remember as you watch President Barack Obama and Congress wrangle over a blizzard of figures at the heart of a proposed dramatic overhaul of the way Americans receive their health care: 372-33, 77-6, 307-116 and 70-24.

These numbers are vital to understanding the American political system, if not the American medical system, and anyone who overlooks them is forgetting an important quality of the way Americans have governed themselves and cared for themselves as they grow old and infirm.

Voice of America | VOA News

A key U.S. Democratic senator says his party cannot pass a health care reform bill in the Senate without support from minority Republicans.

Senate budget committee chairman Kent Conrad said Sunday on U.S. television network ABC Democrats do not have the votes to pass a bill despite holding a 60-seat majority in the 100-member assembly.

• Democrats: GOP votes needed to pass health bill | Tom LoBianco

That ‘Waterloo’ comparison made by the GOP may be starting to get to President Obama’s highly, highly, intelligent and wonderfully gifted head.

Jammie Wearing Fool | Of course it’s all about him.

Michelle Malkin | Not about you, huh?

Hot Air | Obama’s bleak reaction is revealing.

Allah Pundit | It’s all about the O. Isn’t it always?

Investor’s Business Daily | Editorials

The government, through an unelected health choices commissioner, will set premiums, dictate benefits, determine deductibles and establish coverage. Exchange participants will be required to insure anyone who asks to be covered and to accept all renewals. Ryan believes the weight of the mandates will mean only five or six providers will be able to survive and sell coverage in the exchange.

Anyone who wonders how such an exchange will operate need only look at Massachusetts, home to the only health coverage exchange in existence. The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner testified before the Kansas House in 2007 that “in practice, at least as demonstrated in Massachusetts,” an exchange “can quickly devolve into a regulatory body.”

In trying to prove the exchange will be a private market, the bill’s own supporters actually prove our point. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., complains in a letter on the next page that last week’s editorial is “factually incorrect and highly misleading” yet admits three paragraphs later that outside the exchange, providers “can’t continue to market” existing “policies to new customers.”

Rasmussen showed the trend first and Gallup followed up. Now it appears that other polling agencies are seeing the very same trends. The WaPo released its polls showing President Obama slipping down, down, further to a mere mortal existence. (H/T to Memeorandum)

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IBD | MICHAEL O. LEAVITT

The House bill would increase federal spending, increase taxes, increase debt, increase health costs, increase unemployment, reduce wages, reduce American competitiveness and provide nothing to anyone until 2013.

The bill reminds me of Winston Churchill’s line: “Never . . . was so much owed by so many to so few.” Under this bill, the vast majority of Americans would owe a great deal throughout the foreseeable future — paid directly to the IRS or in kind — while a comparatively small number would benefit in a meaningful way.

Ramussen Reports | No Author Listed

Just 35% of U.S. voters now support the creation of a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurers.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 50% of voters oppose setting up a government health insurance company as President Obama and congressional Democrats are now proposing in their health care reform plan. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.

Investor’s Business Daily | It’s Not An Option

It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

Michelle Malkin | Socialized health care and the death of choice

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Right Wing News | ObamaCare Bans Private Insurance

Gateway Pundit | Obamacare Will Outlaw Private Health Insurance Plans!

Say Anything | Democrats can’t be honest about their plans for health care. Because if they were honest about their plans for health care the majority of Americans wouldn’t support them.

Red State | Talk about over-reaching: Chairman Waxman’s bill will make private health insurance illegal for individuals.

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Forbes | ERICA WERNER

Conservative Democrats in the House are rebelling against their party leaders and trying to put the brakes on the push to pass a health care overhaul by August.

The fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition plans to present a letter to House Democratic leaders Thursday raising concerns about costs and other issues and asking for more time, members of the group tell The Associated Press.