Updated: 1 day 18 hours ago
(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.
Those
are some of the reasons Democrats have worked so hard to pass a
centrist health reform bill, many of whose provisions are similar to
those endorsed by former Republican Senate leaders Bob Dole and Howard
Baker. At today's summit, we also discussed the numerous bipartisan
areas of agreement that already exist and are already in the health
care bill. I believe in bipartisan compromise, but Senate Minority
Leader John Boehner's recent
AOL News op-ed piece was more about political talking points than common solutions. It deserves a line-by-line rebuttal.
http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-democrats-are-listening-to-the-american-people/19374404