Blunt now looking to unveil health care plan "in the coming weeks"

Via CNN, I see that Roy Blunt and his Health Care Solutions Working Group are now looking to "unveil their own alternative healthcare legislation in the coming weeks."  As we all know, Blunt's GOP colleagues have been anxious to see a plan from Blunt for months.  In April, Politico reported that when Republicans "look into their own camp" for a health care alternative, "they get nervous."  In response, he promised a "GOP Health Care Plan" by Memorial Day -- which has still not materialized. 

Somehow, Blunt is now complaining that Congress is moving too fast without him, and says that his real problem is an aggressive timeline from President Obama. Desperate to deflect attention from his own failures, Blunt wants to make any actual movement towards real reform a bad thing.

CNN also reports that Blunt is rejecting any sort of "public option" in the health care reform because it "we just don't think that it leads to real competition."  In reality, much of the opposition comes from that fact that such a plan would actually provide competition to drive down costs.  Republicans tend to think that the current system of waste and exorbitant profits for insurance companies must be preserved.