Friday, February 26, 2010

Yesterday's bipartisan meeting

The Democratic Party
pacquiao --

For more than seven hours yesterday, President Obama led a vigorous, respectful, and historic discussion with representatives from both parties and houses in Congress about how best to reform this country's broken health insurance system.

At every opportunity, the President displayed genuine devotion to delving into the specifics of the proposals and sought, wherever possible, to resolve key differences and find common ground.

Watch highlights from the bipartisan meeting here.

While we are still far from resolving all of the differences between Republicans and Democrats on reforming our broken health insurance system, the meeting was a major step forward and a huge win for the American people.

The President continued to seek bipartisan agreement on issues of importance to the American people. Of course, differences do remain.

Democrats made the case for their comprehensive approach that lowers costs, increases coverage and curbs unfair and discriminatory insurance industry practices. The Republicans have not offered comprehensive counter-proposals that achieve these goals and continue to favor a piecemeal approach that has empowered insurance companies to increase the numbers of uninsured, provide less security for those who are insured, and increase health care costs for all Americans.

But it continues to be clear, and yesterday both parties agreed, that we can no longer defer action on addressing this country's broken health insurance system.

Which is why it's time for Republicans to dig deep and identify areas where agreements can be forged on issues like expanding insurance coverage for the millions who lack it and guaranteeing that all consumers have access to care.

Check out some key moments from this historic meeting, and then pass this along to anyone you know who is interested in the fight for reform:

http://my.democrats.org/MeetingHighlights

Thanks you,

Governor Tim Kaine
Chairman


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