Obama's new health care strategy -- his own plan

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President Obama begins a big health care week with a new approach -- his own health care plan.

The White House posts the new Obama plan at 10 a.m., after nearly a year in which the president outlined general principles while leaving most of the details to Congress.

The results included two very different House and Senate plans that Obama is now trying to fuse into a starting point for Thursday's big health care summit with congressional leaders from both parties.

Among other items, the Obama plan will reportedly call for new federal restrictions on health insurance rate hikes. The proposal is a response to the request by Anthem Blue Cross in California for premium hikes of as much as 39 percent.

(Posted by David Jackson)

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