THE WORST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS. The White House shows it has no interest in compromise. "'The President's Proposal,' as the 11-page White House document is headlined, is in one sense a notable achievement: It manages to take the worst of both the House and Senate bills and combine them into something more destructive."

The coercive flavor that animates [the President's proposal] is best captured in the section that purports to accept the Senate's ‘grandfather clause’ allowing people who like their current health plan to keep it. Except that "The President's Proposal" adds certain consumer protections to these 'grandfathered' plans.

Within months of legislation being enacted, it requires plans ... prohibits ... mandates ... requires ...
[T]he President's Proposal adds new protections that prohibit ... ban ... and prohibit ...
The President's Proposal requires ...

After all of these dictates, no ‘grandfathered’ plan will exist.

I’ve read the proposal in its entirety as well ... the Wall Street Journal's assessment is correct. The proposal is long on control and short on everything else.

Read it all.