A couple of talking heads on CNN opined that in essence the big healthcare lobbyists are on the defense. Realizing that they won't be able to block healthcare legislation, they've banded together to try to shape it with heavy duty lobbying and contributions to members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

The opinion of the talking heads, representing both left and right, was that healthcare reform legislation will have to be passed in the next twelve months, if it will be passed at all. Further, they were unanimous in thinking that leaving the framework of the bill to Congress would never work. Certainly, it wouldn't produce a system that would make sense. They all thought that the blueprint for the healthcare bill must come out of the White House, limiting Congress's role to nipping at the blueprint from one side or the other, but not changing it to the point that it would be worse than no bill at all.

Let's hope. I'd hate to think that Barney Frank could put his pawprints on healthcare reform.