Some of the pain that President Obama has been experiencing on the health care proposal could have been alleviated if he had put his plan forward first. Instead, he relied on Congress to drive the legislations, and that has left him with far less control than he wanted, or would have been prudent for an undertaking of this magnitude.
 
Although he put a document on the White House website outlining his plan the weekend after the bipartisan health care summit, it is too little, too late at this point. Had he started with that type of outline, this legislation may have already passed and he could be on to other matters of pressing importance.  Instead, he is still bogged down in the details of negotiating between the House and Senate, a year after starting work on his top domestic priority.