Feb 25 2010
Discussion on Cost Containment at Bipartisan Meeting on Health Care Reform
10:53 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, Harry. Everybody went a little over time, which is not surprising with a room full of elected officials. I wanted to give people a little bit of a wide berth starting off, but we’re going to need to be more disciplined moving forward if we’re going to be able to cover every item. And I’ll try to set the example here. I just want to address very quickly, Lamar, the issue of process that you raised at the beginning and then we’ll move on and start talking about the specifics. As I listened to your description of the House/Senate bill, as well as the proposal that I put on our Web site, obviously there were some disagreements about how you would characterize the legislation. On the other hand, when I listened to some of the steps that you thought Republicans would be open to, I thought, well, a bunch of these things are things that we’d like to do, and in fact are in the legislative proposals.
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Discussion on Cost Containment at Bipartisan Meeting on Health Care Reform