We should have known that the toughest choice coming from the Tough Choices conference planned for last week would be whether the weather would trump six months of planning.

It did.

After initially rescheduling the 1,000-person public forum for Sunday, organizers decided to cancel the event because of the foot of snow. Now, they’re working on plan B.

As originally planned, Tough Choices would have linked participants in Brewer, Augusta and South Portland using cutting-edge conferencing technology and trained facilitators to talk about health care. Participants were chosen to represent the demographics of the state, and would have actually voted on different alternatives being considered for the state’s health care plan, which is due later this year.

Difficulty rescheduling the use of the conferencing equipment means organizers in the Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance are looking for alternative ways to bring together a broad cross section of the state to talk about health care.

A lot of work has gone into Tough Choices, and it has been aggressively billed as an outreach to Mainers on one of the most important issues facing state government. The show should go on, one way or another.