Health Care State of Play

Keith Hennessey has a good run-down of the state of play on health care as Congress returns. He says the most likely scenario, which he gives a 50% chance of happening, is a "fallback" to a "much more limited" health care overhaul than what has been on the table: "This is what Democrats do when all else has failed, to make sure the President has something to sign. It's a failure path that they would unconvincingly argue is a first step toward a larger reform. This would be small compared to the big reform policy being discussed, but in any other context it would be an enormous bill."