Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts on Tuesday has left President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in shock, and has them scrambling for a new plan. The loss of their Senate supermajority has completely caught them off guard due to the fact that they were nearly done with reforming the nation’s health care system and already starting to shift focus onto other issues, such as creating more jobs and lowering the deficit.
Despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s determination to enact a health-care reform bill, she “struggled Wednesday to sell the Senate version of the legislation to reluctant Democrats,” reports The Washington Post. Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid have intentions to make changes to the bill, but “Obama added to the confusion Wednesday when he seemed to endorse one option: having both the House and the Senate start from scratch, by voting on a scaled-back package of popular provisions that would crack down on insurance companies but provide health coverage to far fewer additional people,” states The Washington Post. However, the White House “quickly moved to clarify that the president still wants comprehensive reform.”
What do you think about Obama supporting the option of starting from scratch and voting on a scaled-back package of popular provisions?
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