[Welcome, C&L readers! --lambert]

Lovely:

If Chuck Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family's health insurance while he looked for a new job.

But Congress allowed emergency health care assistance for unemployed workers to expire May 31, and seems unwilling to renew it despite pleas from President Barack Obama.

Not three months after lawmakers passed his $1 trillion insurance overhaul, Obama is facing a rare defeat on health care at the hands of his own divided Democrats. Moderates have rebelled against adding billions more to the deficit in a treacherous election year.

Oh. "Pleas." [haw]

If Obama gave two shits, he'd be taking the same kind of action NOW NOW NOW that he took for the banksters when he whipped for TARP. He isn't, so he doesn't.

Ditto the FKDP. Of course, single payer, which would save $350 billion a year, would solve this problem easily*. Too bad career "progressives" helped the administration censor single payer with their own news blackout instead of advancing the discourse, or we could be advocating for a real solution in the next Congress, instead of waiting for the 2014 FAIL. Then again, I guess that SEIU money for shilling the Public Option Trojan Sparkle Pony -- Hi, Jason! Hi Chris! -- was just to tempting to turn down....

NOTE * Assuming that you consider people dying because they can't get health care a problem, which our elites obviously do not.