President Obama is telling big donors that he may be forced to revisit health care in his second term, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Obama has discussed his health care plans at closed-door, high-profile fundraisers like the May event hosted by Tony James, the president and chief operating officer of the private equity firm Blackstone Group.
BLOOMBERG: According to three Democratic activists, President Barack Obama is confiding to his big-dollar donors that he may be forced to revisit health care reform in his second term if the Supreme Court rules against him. That’s a posture at odds with his public confidence on his signature legislative accomplishment, the so-called Affordable Care Act, that it will pass Constitutional muster. The president gives this honest take at closed-door fundraisers, like the $35,000-a-plate dinner at Blackstone’s Tony James’ apartment in Manhattan, where the guests were told to check their Blackberries at the door. And those private comments to donors, along with White House coordination with outside groups for potential defeat in the high court, cast doubt on the president’s public confidence that the court will rule his way at the end of the month.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that the administration did not have a 'plan B' if the Supreme Court ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional in March.
"Not that I'm aware of," Carney said.