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In Letter, Obama Nods to GOP on Health Care
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 2) -- For all the talking he did at last week's bipartisan health care summit, President Barack Obama apparently was listening. In a letter to congressional leaders today, Obama outlined four ideas raised by Republicans at Blair House that he said are worth exploring and possibly adding to his plan to reform the health care system: Going undercover. Obama liked Sen. Tom Coburn's "interesting suggestion" that medical professionals pose as patients to uncover fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid, Medicare and other federal programs. Demonstrating change. Noting that ...
At Health Care Summit, Louise Slaughter Put Women in the Picture
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyThe only thing more painfully obvious than the lack of bipartisanship at Thursday's "bipartisan" health care summit was the dearth of women at the table. Of more than 40 participants, five were women: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Reps. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) Equal-representation issues aside, Slaughter seemed determined to bring women's health care concerns to the forefront, making impassioned comments that ranged from the enforcement of "cruel" and "capricious" policies ...
Health Care Summit Shows Time for Talking Is Done
By David Corn - Politics DailyNow that all that rigamarole is over, let's move on to the inevitable. I'm referring, of course, to the seven-hour shindig at Blair House on Thursday. The White House health care summit yielded few surprises. There was no bipartisan breakthrough -- or any sign of progress on that front. The meeting marked not the start of a process, but the end. It buried any notion that President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans can reach an accommodation on comprehensive health care reform. But that's not to say the gabfest had no value. It clarified the situation. Though much of the conversation ...
Opinion: Democrats Are Listening to the American People
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- On Thursday, I sat down with President Obama and my congressional colleagues from both parties to try to find a way out of the health care crisis threatening our families and businesses. It was a time to face facts none of us can deny: that insurance premiums more than doubled last decade, with no sign of stopping; that most of our smallest businesses can't afford to cover their employees anymore; that America pays more per person for health care than any other industrialized country in the world, without seeing better health. Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images Rep. Steny Hoyer, ...
Health Care Summit Yields No Clear Progress
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Before the bipartisan health care summit began Thursday morning in Washington, Americans knew that most Democrats in Congress liked their plan for health care reform and nearly all Republicans didn't. ...
Play by Play: How Obama Anchored the Summit
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 25) -- As much as anything else, Thursday's health care summit was a seven-hour study in presidential frustration. Whatever hopes President Barack Obama had for the long-awaited bipartisan meeting, they seemed to be dashed by the time Republicans started speaking. Part moderator, part timekeeper, part debater, Obama flashed his irritation at summit participants who talked too long, brought stale talking points or used props. 10:50 a.m.: Behind Already Less than an hour in and the complaints began: The summit was running behind schedule. "We're going to need to be more ...
Most Americans Don't Believe Health Summit Will Produce Agreement
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySeventy-seven percent of Americans hold little hope that Thursday's health care summit will produce bipartisan agreement on health care reform, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Feb. 23. The summit is being held at Blair House, across the street from the White House. Eighty-seven percent of Republicans don't think an agreement will be reached and 77 percent of independents and 71 percent of Democrats share that view. More Americans think President Obama will make the most sincere efforts to find solutions acceptable to both parties. Fifty-six percent believe that of Obama, ...
Opinion: The Mythical Middle Ground on Health Care
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Today, Republicans and Democrats are coming together for President Obama's much-hyped bipartisan health care summit. While health care will certainly be on top of the agenda, it's unlikely that much bipartisanship will be evident. For all the voices in Washington calling for a bipartisan solution to health care reform, there is a rather large problem – Republicans aren't all that interested in compromise. Before one dismisses this as a partisan rant, the Republican position is actually quite rational and befitting conservative ideology. Strenuously opposing the Democrats' ...
Five Scenarios for Obama's Health Care Summit
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 24) -- The stakes couldn't be higher for Thursday's bipartisan health care summit, as President Barack Obama makes one last major effort to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's medical insurance system. Here are five ways the Blair House confab could play out from the president's perspective. Obama's Wildest Dream: A GOP Epiphany The GOP would need to have a we-realize-the-error-of-our-ways epiphany to give Obama the kind of truly bipartisan consensus that he hoped to achieve a year ago. This, to be perfectly clear, will not happen. Republican leaders Mitch McConnell, ...
Health Care Summit Run-Up: Table-Shape Dispute Settled
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a mini-squabble calling to mind high-level diplomatic talks, the Obama administration and its Republican guests at Thursday's health care summit faced off in intense preliminary discussions about . . . the shape of the table for their sit-down at Blair House, across the street from the White House. The president's emissaries favored a U-shaped table that would have had Obama and Vice President Joe Biden seated at the head with lawmakers in front of them on either side, like an audience, The Washington Post reported. Uh-oh. Republicans balked, not wishing to be upstaged at the televised ...
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