The sources for this article are the Washington Times and the Cybercast News Service.
Just a note before I officially get on with the article. President Obama is stating that the reason the economic recovery is slow is that he inherited a trillion dollar deficit. Let's just remember that the budgets that gave us that deficit were passed by a Democrat congress that took office in January 2007 (and voted on by then Senator Barack Obama). Since Barack Obama took office he has also significantly increased deficit spending. What he inherited he helped create and he has made worse since he took office.
President Obama has named insurance companies and doctors as the reasons the cost of healthcare has risen in this country. Somehow he fails to mention the runaway lawsuits that have put a lot of money in lawyers' pockets and only some in the pockets of patients. He is not willing to consider tort reform so that doctors do not have to practice 'defensive medicine', which is one of the reasons for the high cost of healthcare.
It was reported that just before the press conference, negotiations on the healthcare bill were having some problems. According to the Washington Post:
"Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, dropped out of the group of six bipartisan negotiators in the Senate Finance Committee, saying it had become clear to him that he could not support the emerging compromise blueprint.
Mr. Hatch said committee Chairman Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, has "not been given the flexibility necessary to construct a realistic health care reform bill that can achieve true bipartisan support.""
According to the Cybercast New Service, when asked if he would participate in the government plan, President Obama avoided the question:
But when asked if Obama, "as a symbolic gesture," would agree to abide by the public option he's advocating for others, Obama didn't give a direct answer:
"You know, I would be happy to abide by the same benefit package. I will just be honest with you. I'm the president of the United States, so I've got a doctor following me every minute, which is why I say this is not about me," Obama answered. "I've got the best health care in the world. I'm trying to make sure that everybody has good health care, and they don't right now."
I will gladly sign on to the congressional healthcare plan just as soon as Congress gives up their current healthcare plan and signs on to the plan they pass!
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