Posted on 09/13/2009 7:11:34 PM PDT by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said he is confident Congress will pass "a good health care bill," as months of rancor over reforming the nation's health care system seemed to be easing Sunday, with the White House playing down an immediate role for a government insurance option.
At the same time, Obama was critical of Republican opponents who he said were trying to block an overhaul of the nation's heath care system for political gain.
"I believe that we will have enough votes to pass not just any health care bill, but a good health care bill that helps the American people, reduces costs, actually over the long-term controls our deficit. I'm confident that we've got that," Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes. "There are those in the Republican party who think the best thing to do is just to kill reform. That that will be good politics."
Obama has retaken the offensive on his key domestic policy issue, most notably with a speech last week to both houses of Congress. And sought to turn down the heat over a government-run health insurance plan.
"The public option is only a means to that end and we should remain open to other ideas that accomplish our ultimate goal," he said.
Obama is trying to push opposing lawmakers away from positions — both left and right — that were threatening stalemate. That's what happened when Bill Clinton, the last Democratic president, tried to push through an overhaul in the 1990s.
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And Obama does not care about being held responsible for this disaster and Marxist sham....he is banking that he will be in a position where it does not matter what the people think, or what the token behavior of our Congress amounts to on this issue. None of this is about "health care".
It’s going to be a sick healthscare bill - it needs to be quarantined!
See ya at the signin’.
“Good” government healthcare is a myth.
If they have the votes, why haven’t they passed the bill?
The Dems own the healthcare bills since they refuse to acknowledge Republicans and their ideas in the House.
The only good bill is a dead bill.
“Good health” is correct, pity the fool who gets sick under it.
The Dems own the healthcare bills since they refuse to acknowledge Republicans and their ideas in the House.
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Yes they do. 100% of it. But they will also own the death and destruction from the operating policies that will follow. They will own the loss of Constitutional freedoms we will suffer. They will own the MASSIVE DEBT they will continue to create to pay for this powergrab.
And will they be held accountable?
You should have let it go at that. Can you point to "good government" anywhere in our nation? They are all corrupt and are absolutely bankrupting all of us from town to city to county to state to federal.
The only good health care bill is a dead health care bill
They will be held accountable. Wasn’t sure six months ago, but today even a lot of Dems are sick and tired of the socialist in their Party.
Know a Dem here in OK if anyone had told me six months ago that he would have voted in the general for Dr. Coburn, I would have told anyone they were nuts. But he refuses to vote for any Dem to send to DC. He has had it with Obama and company.
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