“I don’t want to see this meeting turn into political theater, with each side simply reciting talking points and trying to score political points. Instead, I ask members of both parties to seek common ground in an effort to solve a problem that’s been with us for generations,” Obama said in his address.
President Barack Obama urge both political parties to work together on controversial issue to overhaul U.S. health care.
Obama also said, “status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for America.”
“As bad as things are today, they’ll only get worse if we fail to act. We’ll see exploding premiums and out-of-pocket costs burn through more and more family budgets,” Obama said.
members of Congress have complained that the president should take a more active role in the health-care reform process.
“To members of Congress, I would simply say this. We know the American people want us to reform our health insurance system. We know where the broad areas of agreement are. And we know where the sources of disagreement lie. After debating this issue exhaustively for a year, let’s move forward together,” the president added.
Obama said to invite members of the both Democratic and Republican parties to the healthcare summit to share ideas on how to down healthcare costs, which repeatedly warned threaten to cripple the U.S. economy.
Rep. Dave Camp said, “In fact, right now, Democrats are continuing to work behind closed doors, putting the finishing touches on yet another massive health care bill Americans can’t afford and don’t want.”
“When it comes to choosing candidates for Congress,” writes by a political scientist at Emory University who specializes in elections, Mr. Alan Abramowitz, “it is opinions of the president’s performance that matter.” So the opposition party — whether Democratic or Republican — has to stomp opinions of the president down into the mud. And it does that by killing his agenda.