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Health Care Overhaul Summit Cements Differences

Posted by Raymond on February 28, 2010

From NPR:

President Obama’s made-for-TV health summit probably didn’t change many minds. And it certainly didn’t produce any bipartisan breakthroughs on Thursday. But it did clarify some of the biggest differences between Republicans and Democrats.

The 18 Republicans who attended the all-day meeting at Blair House, just across from the White House, were polite, but firm. The bills passed by the Democratic House and Senate last year are simply too big for them, and for the American people, to swallow.

“We’ve come to the conclusion we don’t do comprehensive well,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee. “Our country is too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington; a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking 17 percent of the economy all at once.”

But Democrats were just as firm in response. They’ve tried addressing problems in health care piece by piece.

“The evidence shows that incremental reform not only does less, it costs more,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon.

[Read more at NPR]

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    Given that both sides have now been polite but firm, it is time for the Democrats to take action in getting a bill passed with full knowledge that they are doing so because the Republicans were not interested in working for the same type of reforms. The key, however, is to take action so that they can at least retain support from those Democrats who are for such action rather than having Republican supporters against them over the attempt to pass the bill and Democrat supporters dissatisfied for not getting a bill passed.