A healthcare poll revealed that 63% of Americans want Congress to keep working on passing a comprehensive health care reform bill. The survey took place Thursday through Monday and involved more than 1,000 voters.
The key question was, “Do you think lawmakers in Washington should keep trying to pass a comprehensive health care reform plan, or should they give up on comprehensive health care reform?” Joel Connelly from Seattle PI states, “Sixty-three percent said “Keep Trying” while 34 percent opted for “Give Up.” By an 88 percent-to-8 percent margin, Democrats opted for trying. So did Independents, by a 56 percent-to-39 percent division. By contrast, by a 55 percent-to-42 percent margin, Republicans opted for the give-up option.”
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Sunday before the Superbowl in an interview with Katie Couric, President Obama revealed that on Feb. 25 he will assemble a public meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders to reach a bipartisan consensus on the healthcare reform bill. PriceDoc COO Patrick Bradley, Ph.D., says, “I like it because one, we will get input from both sides….and, the public gets to hear it. You would think for 1/6 of the nation’s economy, you would let the public hear the debate. Now, we may get reform that help American consumers and lowers cost.”
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Andrew Rubin from The Huffington Post says he is upset about healthcare reform failing, but is most upset that many Americans are unaware of what has actually happened. He says, “Sure, they know the Senate and House reform bills were expensive. They certainly know that there are among 30 to 50 million Americans without health insurance coverage… We should also not forget about the 25 million under insured, most of whom do not even realize it until they actually get sick.”
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The Washington Post reports that, “Last year, Obama used his budget to lay the groundwork for comprehensive health-care reform, proposing a 10-year $634 billion reserve fund as a “down payment” on universal coverage. This year’s blueprint does not include that money,” but administration sources say the new budget presumes a healthcare bill will be passed and lead to a $150 billion deficit reduction over the next 10 years.
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President Obama is still determined to pass a major health care legislation, and on Monday the White House released the $3.8 trillion budget which “includes $150 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years on the presumption that a health care bill will be adopted,” says David M. Herszenhorn from The New York Times.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that Congress has the ability to move forward on health care reform “on many fronts”. This would include “working to pass smaller parts of the legislation in separate bills while still negotiating a comprehensive reform package,” states Lea Winerman from PBS. One of the things Pelosi stated that they could do is remove the antitrust exemption for insurers. Winerman reports that, “She did not give a specific timetable for any of the legislation. But an aide told the Boston Globe that a series of such smaller bills could be unveiled before the mid-February recess.”
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Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts last week has left Democrats shocked and unsure of what to do next in regards to health care. According to Kent Garber from U.S. News, Democrats are “trying to decide what to do: push forward, back down, or take a new approach to salvage healthcare reform.” Wednesday night in President Obama’s State of the Union address, he urged congress to “finish the job for the American people,” but he didn’t specify a time limit. Whatever they choose to do depends on a few things, such as “including balancing what the White House wants against what Democratic leaders think they can get, interpreting what voters in Massachusetts were saying, and divining what, if anything, the outcome means for the November midterm elections,” states Garber.
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Wednesday night President Obama announced that he’s still determined to reform the nation’s health care system, despite the several setbacks he has faced. When addressing the health care reform issue in his State of the Union address, Obama “urged lawmakers to continue working towards expanding coverage to the uninsured and overhauling the way the U.S. health insurance companies do business,” reports Chris Rizo from Legal Newsline.
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Despite Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts, the White House has not given up on health care reform. NY Daily News reports that David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser, said, “It’s very clear, people don’t want us to walk away from health care,” and that, “they want us to address their concerns with the program.”
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Obama promised that a health care reform bill would expand access to health insurance and lower costs for people who already have health plans, and despite several set-backs, President Obama says he’s not giving up on health care reform. Fox News states that Obama said “he had “no illusions” about the difficulty of the health care fight when he took it on and vowed to work with members on both sides of the aisle to pass a bill.”
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