President Obama spoke last night about the future of healthcare reform in the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts.
I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think there’s some things in there that people don’t like and legitimately don’t like. If they think for example that there’s a carve out for just one or two particular groups or interests, I think some of that, clearing out some of that under brush, moving rapidly.
As Paul Krugman notes, not exactly fighting words.
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