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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Sully- who wrote (78365)3/16/2010 12:17:01 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
ObamaCare and the ‘Buzzsaw’ of Opposition
The president could have chosen a bipartisan approach.
MARCH 15, 2010, 10:47 P.M. ET
BY JOHN BOEHNER AND MITCH MCCONNELL

A little over a year ago, when President Obama first took up health-care reform, Republicans reached out to him in the hopes of working together on solutions that would lower health-care costs for families and small businesses. A bipartisan bill focused on lower costs could have been sent to the president’s desk last year, and it would have received the support of the American people.

For instance, this month the president announced his support for additional reforms to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid. This is something we can and should be doing already. Do we really need to pass a $2.5 trillion spending bill, raise taxes, and slash Medicare to implement it?

In other areas, Democrats have taken solid Republican reforms—such as putting an end to junk lawsuits and allowing patients to purchase insurance across state lines—and watered them down to a point where they cannot ...

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