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Amid all the talk of what might result from tomorrow's health care summit, here's a rundown of what will actually happen tomorrow.

The summit is being held at the Blair House, an official guest house of the president, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There are lots of places to watch the summit: It will be streamed live on whitehouse.gov and broadcast on C-Span 3. The RNC and DNC are both planning to run their own live streams, as are the major cable networks. And TPM will have a live wire on the front page, as well as posts from TPMDC throughout the day.

The White House released a sketch of the schedule to the Huffington Post yesterday. President Obama will make open remarks, and so will the Democrats and the Republicans. The discussion will then focus on four issues: controlling costs, insurance reforms, reducing the deficit and expanding coverage.

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February 24, 2010 5:10 PM   

The Republican plan addresses all of those issues:

Controlling costs: don't cover anybody
Insurance reforms: don't cover anybody
Reducing the Deficit: don't cover anybody
Expanding coverage: don't cover anybody

Who says the Republicans don't have a plan?

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February 24, 2010 5:11 PM   

So the Republicans are spurning the Democrats' request to post a health care plan ahead of the meeting?

I wonder if Obama will use his opening remarks to call them out on this. It seems like people aren't going to notice that unless the Democrats take pains to point it out.

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February 24, 2010 5:14 PM   

Will the summit be the resounding game changing success as Obama at the House GOP Conference? I bet it will.

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February 24, 2010 5:21 PM   

The RNC and DNC are both planning to run their own live streams, as are the major cable networks.

Unless Obama starts to make the Republicans look bad...at which point the GOP stream will go dead and Fox "News" will turn their coverage to the crop report.

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February 25, 2010 2:34 AM    in reply to eratosthenes8

Indeed

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February 25, 2010 9:12 AM   

As for the summit being a 'gamechanger', I woefully doubt it. But secretly hoping that some egos (on the Repugnant side) get bruised and the populace will get a sense that the Administration is working dilligently to get things done.

Did I mention that I'm woefully doubtful?

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