Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press writes on Yahoo News - “President Barack Obama’s modest health care budget may be a harbinger of what’s ahead if his overhaul plan dies in Congress.

The budget released Monday contains lots of respectable ideas to squeeze savings, expand coverage and improve quality, but no ambitious change that launches the nation on a path to health care for all.

“It doesn’t change dramatically the cost trajectory or fill the coverage gap,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

With costs widely acknowledged to be growing at budget-busting rates, the $915 billion health spending plan for 2011 would hire more fraud detectives to root out waste and outright thievery in Medicare and Medicaid, the two giant insurance programs for seniors and the poor. The budget would increase spending in one major anti-fraud area by 80 percent, part of a strategy the administration estimates could save taxpayers about $10 billion over 10 years.”

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