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 looming our families and businesses. It was a time to face facts none of us can deny that insurance premium doubled more than 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 mechanized 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 conciliation 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.
"Americans want Washington to scrap this job-killing government takeover of health care and start over."
It's really the growing cost of health care that's killing jobs. A study from economists at USC and Harvard shows that passing health insurance reform would create 4 million more jobs over the next decade.
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 conciliation 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.
"Americans want Washington to scrap this job-killing government takeover of health care and start over."
It's really the growing cost of health care that's killing jobs. A study from economists at USC and Harvard shows that passing health insurance reform would create 4 million more jobs over the next decade.
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