House and Senate Republicans have served notice to the White House that they aren’t going to participate in the President’s February 25 health reform summit unless the Dems agree to dump the boondoggles they passed last year. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor put it thus:
Unless the president and Speaker Pelosi are willing to scrap their government takeover and hit the reset button, there’s not much to talk about.
House Minority Leader John Boehner echoed this sentiment:
The best way to start on real, bipartisan reform would be to scrap those bills and focus on the kind of step-by-step improvements that will lower health care costs and expand access.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell issued this statement:
We know there are a number of issues with bipartisan support that we can start with when the 2,700-page bill is put on the shelf.
Rep. Tom Price, Chairman of the RSC, put it as follows:
The only constructive discussions will start with a blank sheet of paper … The American people have soundly rejected the president’s Big Government approach to health care, and tinkering at the margins of it will not bring about bipartisan consensus.
This is good politics and it may actually save our medical delivery system. Take it from someone who has spent 25 years actually working in the industry: If either of the monstrosities passed by the Dems last year is signed into law, it will be the end of health care as we know it.
I hope the Republicans stick to their guns.
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Huh. I guess the Rs still have good healthcare: someone managed to locate and straighten their spines.
Posted 08 Feb 2010 at 11:27 pm ¶It took 3 years of exploratory surgery to locate said spines, and the straightening was done in Massachusetts.
I guess we’ll find out in November whether the cure is permanent.
Posted 08 Feb 2010 at 11:58 pm ¶Post a Comment