THE NEW YORK TIMES recommends Plan B – Ram it through.

[I]t is up to the Democrats to fix the country’s dysfunctional and hugely costly health care system.

Yet survey after survey, poll after poll, tells us that most Americans are satisfied with their health care coverage.

[L]letting people buy insurance in other states that might allow skimpier — and thus cheaper — coverage ... a formula for helping healthy people cut costs while driving up premiums for sick people unable to get similar coverage.

Can’t let those proles get what they want, can we?

Republican speakers made clear that the only thing they would accept is starting over from scratch. That would be the end of sweeping reform.

True. And also true that starting over is what most Americans want.

Mr. Obama needs to keep explaining to Americans that this health care reform is critical — to give them security, to hold down costs and ease the strain on federal budgets. His main challenge, and his best chance, for passing it is to get his own party in line.

He has to “ram it through” specifically because most Americans don’t believe him when he explains that healthcare reform will “give them security, to hold down costs and ease the strain on federal budgets.”