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Negotiations inched forward on Capitol Hill over healthcare legislation. CBS' Nancy Cordes took the Senate side, where a committee rejected both a mandate on employers to insure their workers and also competition for the insurance industry from a federally-run plan. "Many Democrats up here feel that there is no point to reform without a government plan," she noted. The committee's fall back position was a not-for-profit self-help co-operative to compete with corporate insurers. ABC's George Stephanopoulos took the House side, where conservative Democrats agreed to support a bill that compelled fewer small businesses to insure their workers and "watered down" that public health insurance option. At the White House, NBC's Savannah Guthrie called that "a family feud between Democratic leaders and conservatives." The upshot, Guthrie noted, was that "some of the President's priorities may be on the chopping block." She talked to unidentified aides of Barack Obama and they admitted that "they have a message problem selling healthcare reform."
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