Perhaps to President Obama’s relief, Republican health reform plans are the ones being scrutinized now, in advance of the Feb. 25 bipartisan summit on health care that the president called for over the weekend.

* David Herzenhorn of the New York Times sees a way that the summit could be useful, informative and game changing…if Republicans have a unified health care plan that could be compared (on television) to a unified Democratic plan. This will be a stretch even if Republicans to pull together an actual bill that could be evaluated by the Congressional Budget Office and if House and Senate Democrats can agree on a merged bill before the Feb. 25 event. If you’re asking yourself why this isn’t as easy as it sounds, check out this passage from Herzenhorn: