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

Miami Herald | James Rosen

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint, already in the national spotlight for his “Waterloo” criticism of President Barack Obama’s health care plan, stepped up his attacks Thursday in response to a TV ad targeting him.

DeMint labeled as “blatantly false” the Democratic National Committee ad’s claim that he “supports no (health care) plan at all,” dispatching lawyers to warn TV stations now running it in the Columbia, Greenville and Washington broadcast markets.

In unusually pointed terms, DeMint turned the tables on Obama, accusing him of blocking health care reforms while the Illinois Democrat was a senator.

Reuters | Donna Smith and Kim Dixon

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama’s drive for healthcare reform suffered a setback on Thursday when Senate leaders said they would not be able to pass the measure before leaving for a monthlong August recess.

The day after Obama’s prime-time news conference to sell the healthcare proposal, congressional leaders struggled to ease doubts about the plan and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the full chamber would not take up the bill until after its monthlong recess that begins on Aug. 7.

“We’ll come back in the fall” to work on the bill in the full Senate, he told reporters.

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.”

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.

ABC News | No Author Listed

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The Democratic National Committee is launching a new television advertisement today to press Congress to support President Obama’s health care plan — and is targeting moderate Democrats to come on board.

Pressuring Democrats to follow the president on health care reform marks a strategic shift by the DNC — and represents the biggest gamble yet by the president’s old campaign apparatus to turn the campaign’s 13-million-person-plus army into legislative act

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

No Sheeples Here | Obama: So I lied. Now what?

Zandar vs The Stupid | Reading Comprehension For The Win, Again

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.

Fausta’s Blog | Singer’s three-fifths

Roll Call | David M. Drucker, Anna Palmer and Kate Ackley

Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday.

Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides.

“They said, ‘Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act,’” said a Democratic lobbyist who attended the meeting.